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West Midlands unveils £10bn investment prospectus at MIPIM
Tuesday 12th of March 2019 12:32 PM
Mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street has launched £10bn worth of housing, regeneration, commercial and infrastructure development opportunities to international investors at the MIPIM property marketplace in Cannes, South of France.
MIPIM is the world’s leading property market and attracts around 26,000 property professionals from around the world, including more than 5,000 investors, collectively representing hundreds of billions of pounds in capital.
Leading the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) delegation in Cannes, the Mayor unveiled 24 diverse development opportunities from across the region that are seeking investment.
The opportunities, presented on behalf of the region as part of a new West Midlands Investment Prospectus, include:
• £2bn+ UK Central Hub and HS2 Interchange - a 140-hectare development creating a sustainable urban quarter, including thousands of homes, commercial and leisure facilities and unrivalled connectivity around the West Midlands’ second HS2 station
• £350m+ City Centre South Coventry - an urban mixed-use development with significant residential, retail and leisure components
• £800m DY5 Dudley’s Business and Innovation Enterprise Zone - new opportunities in mixed-use industrial, residential and office developments
• £700m Friargate Coventry - office led mixed-use and multi-phase development in central Coventry
• £850m Greater Icknield and Smethwick - a significant residential-led mixed-use development at the heart of the West Midlands region
• £700m Paradise Birmingham - a high quality mixed-use development that introduces new public realm to a historic city centre setting
• £250m The Brewers Yard Wolverhampton - key city centre mixed-use use regeneration site adjacent to Wolverhampton Railway Station and Wolverhampton University
• £300m Walsall Town Centre - town centre mixed-use development including new office, retail, leisure, residential and mixed-use town centre projects
• £1bn+ Birmingham Curzon – mixed-use development centred on a new High-Speed 2 station in central Birmingham
The WMCA is using its presence in MIPIM to raise the profile of the West Midlands among an international investor audience, with the aim of attracting investment to strategically important capital projects across the region.
The Mayor said: “We are building the future and there’s never been a better time to invest in the West Midlands.
“We have a diverse, resilient economy, one of the youngest and fastest growing populations in Europe, great quality of life, unrivalled connectivity, brilliant centres of learning, and world-class businesses, large and small.
“This provides us with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to drive inclusive growth across the region that benefits all our communities.
“This £10bn investment prospectus demonstrates the strength of our offer and the boldness of our vision. We are the most promising place to invest in the UK - and, like all good businesses, we have a plan and are delivering it.”
Deborah Cadman, WMCA chief executive, added: “The investor-friendly WMCA is focused on providing our region with strategic leadership and the local knowledge needed to succeed.
“Supported by the UK Government’s ambitious Industrial Strategy, we are building tomorrow’s homes, creating vibrant and thriving mixed-use places, investing in world-class infrastructure, and transforming the West Midlands into the UK’s growth capital.
“The West Midlands has all the elements in place to provide investor certainty and strong long-term growth. The region is open for business and the time to invest is now.”
The WMCA, which brings together 18 local authorities and four Local Enterprise Partnerships with the single aim of driving inclusive growth across the region, provides strategic leadership and a single entry point for investors in the West Midlands.
With the region’s population forecast to grow by half a million over the next 20 years -equivalent to a city the size of Bristol or Liverpool - and wage levels expected to rise faster than anywhere else in the UK, the WMCA is delivering an ambitious growth strategy, focused on creating good jobs, real skills progression and a pipeline of developments that will benefit all the region’s communities.
The WMCA’s Strategic Economic Plan and Local Industrial Strategy, which is focused on smart mobility, data-driven health and life sciences, modern services, and creative content, techniques and technologies, is backed by an £8bn 30-year investment programme and a significant annual investment in providing job-specific training.
The prospectus can also be viewed at:
https://www.wmca.org.uk/what-we-do/housing-land/investment-prospectus/
The West Midlands – Fast Facts:
• The region’s £102bn economy has grown by 22.4% in the last five years
• Coventry will host the UK City of Culture in 2021 and Birmingham will host the Commonwealth Games in 2022
• The region is home to the UK’s first testbed for 5G technology and autonomous vehicles, putting the West Midlands at the leading edge of the fourth Industrial Revolution
• Birmingham was voted the UK's most investable city by 500 of Europe’s top real estate investment experts
• Over £5bn is being invested in transport upgrades, delivering an integrated world-class network
• The West Midlands has the UK's second highest ambition for house building − 16,500 new annual completions by 2031. 14,500 additional new homes were built in 2018, up 93% on 2011, 21% on 2017
• The region has committed to becoming a world leader in modern methods of construction, with 51% of new homes using advanced methods by 2031
• Two new HS2 stations will connect the region with London in 38/47 minutes, with journey times to Heathrow Airport cut to just one hour, quicker than from many parts of London
• 90% of the UK population within a four-hour drive – while the region is within four hours by road of nine of the UK’s 13 major ports
• Birmingham Airport is spending £500m in improvements over the next 15 years, growing passenger numbers by 40% from13 million per year today to 18 million per year by 2033, and has direct flights to over 130 destinations in 49 countries with 50 airlines
• The £1.3bn West Midland Metro expansion will triple the network size, adding 50 additional trams by 2026
• Investment in the regional rail network will open nine suburban rail stations and re-open 31km of rail lines
• The region has 1.3 million residents under 25, one of the youngest populations in Europe
• 145,000m2 of prime office space is under development across the region
• The West Midlands is the fastest-growing UK region for goods exports with 27% growth between 2015 and 2017
Category: Advanced Manufacturing, Announcements, Business Growth, Culture & Tourism, Digital and Creative, Funding, Infrastructure, Innovation, Skills & Jobs
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Teaching Science Fiction Theatre: Reflections from Sci-Fi Theatre Workshops
December 15, 2018 / Christos Callow
It is impossible or rather simple-minded to place the words “science fiction” and “theatre” together without acknowledging the common essence of both; the notion that science fiction is a “literature of ideas” and that theatre is necessarily that too, as it is rooted in conflict, as it is, more than perhaps any other medium, a dialectical art form. Any attempt to create, practice and teach the genre on stage should start from this principle.
Equally commonplace is the following approach, that science fiction engages with what-ifs, that it is literature of the “what if.” What if robots ruled Britain, what if you could teleport to Mars, what if aliens looked like giant teabags? However, these what-ifs are in themselves indistinguishable from one another in terms of artistic merit or purpose. Anyone can come up with a mashup of two things that sound funny or scary or exciting together and put them in a story set in another time or another space where their union is made possible.
As an exercise however, experimenting with such what-ifs can provide the occasional starting point for a great play or novel, especially when there is an order to the creative chaos, a “why” that accompanies the what-if in question. The exercises that are briefly mentioned below and which have formed part of the workshops discussed in this blog post have featured both individual and group experimentation with science fictional what-ifs in the context of playwriting, but always in relation to another more specific instruction or objective, such as worldbuilding for the stage or adapting a non-sci-fi play.
As the year 2018 is coming to its end, I wanted to reflect on these sci-fi theatre workshops here (and similarly-themed university seminars) and provide some observations and conclusions based on my experience of teaching science fiction theatre in different contexts for the past couple of years, as well as observing sci-fi theatre workshops led by others.
1. Teaching the Science Fiction Play
Teaching a science fiction play in a seminar for English literature and/or Theatre studies students is a very different experience than that of a sci-fi theatre workshop; it is, in many ways, beneficial for the play to be introduced among other contemporary texts and approached as a work of contemporary theatre that nevertheless includes elements of science fiction. The pluralism of approaches that a large diverse group of students brings to such a play’s reading is incredible; literature students may have no interest in science fiction but an expertise in theatrical texts, while others may have the opposite. Theatre students, even when they do have a passion for science fiction, have never been encouraged to connect the two and the term sci-fi theatre sounds to them new and alien in most cases.
However – and this is in relation to the introductory bit above – those students who come to sci-fi theatre with a background in literary criticism, will gladly engage with the political and philosophical core of each text, and will apply postcolonial criticism or Marxist theory often reaching a great understanding of one or several of the themes the text engages with. The more diverse a group of students, the more fruitful the conversations on the text. When teaching The Nether by Jennifer Haley at Birkbeck, University of London, the students expressed a wide range of emotional and critical responses. This is expected of high-concept science fiction literature, but in this case the added element of the play leads to more complex questions and makes the study of the text more personal; those that had seen the play had a different emotional involvement in the discussion, and those that disliked or had little experience of reading theatre, were motivated to read more plays (and in some cases to challenge the common prejudice that plays aren’t meant to be read) as they were intrigued by the strong philosophical and moral conflicts. That said, The Nether – as I had written in a previous blog post – can be a difficult play for literature students who aren’t used to the more provocative and disturbing elements of either classical or contemporary theatre. I suspect that Alistain McDowall’s Pomona would be similarly useful as teaching material but similarly shocking to BA students of English lit. It may be that Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn would be more accessible to start with, however I haven’t had the chance to introduce the same group of students to all three texts to get a sense of their reactions.
Generally speaking, science fiction plays are a good way to introduce science fiction literature fans to theatre, and vice versa, theatre fans to science fiction. There should be one in every contemporary literature syllabus and in every contemporary theatre syllabus, again because the conflict of ideas and worldviews is such an essential part of both science fiction and theatre that in sci-fi theatre one often gets the best of both worlds.
2. Teaching the Sci-Fi Theatre Workshop
I spoke mainly about seminars for literature students above; while teaching theatre studies at the University of Leeds earlier this year, I gave an introduction to sci-fi theatre workshop that I later adapted to the first workshop of 2018’s Science Fiction Theatre Research Lab. Both versions were three hours in length and included a mini lecture, a discussion and a creative exercise in two parts. There’s no need to go into further detail about its structure, but it was interesting to observe how differently a similar workshop was received by students and by professional participants (many of them were theatre professionals and others were writers) who attended Cyborphic’s 2018 workshops in London.
The workshop included an adaptation exercise, which basically means taking a well-known play and converting it to science fiction. This is a straightforward exercise, and there are both theatre directors who adapt certain classical stories as if they were sci-fi plays / set in dystopian near-future scenarios, as well as writers who take classical plays and add a sci-fi twist. There isn’t always a good or a concrete reason and the sci-fi adaptation can feel forced, but there were students who made good connections between science fiction tropes and a certain theme or character in Shakespeare, for example. This is another way to inspire people to think outside the box for the potential ways a text can be adapted, but it also helps to go back to the original text afterwards with a more complex perspective.
3. Science Fiction Theatre Research Lab
While delivering the workshop to theatremakers and writers, it was fascinating to see how differently the people who chose the workshop (rather than the students for whom it was part of their course) perceived science fiction theatre. I feel it is important for anyone creating and/or producing science fiction plays to converse about these issues with different groups of people who will have a completely different understanding and experience of science fiction and/or of theatre. This was obviously a group who was positive about all things sci-fi, most of them very knowledgeable about science fiction literature and culture, and who were also eager to expand their awareness of the genre on the stage and use any information or inspirational thought to inform their practice. Staging their writing was a new experience for writers, while engaging with high-concept sci-fi ideas was a new experience for theatre artists.
Dominic Allen’s list-in-progress of sci-fi theatre-related questions / themes that were later explored via creative exercises.
The research lab expanded on the original workshop and I had invited three more workshop leaders as part of this workshop series. The other workshop leaders were Dominic Allen, Chloe Mashiter and Edward Einhorn. Edward Einhorn, a theatre director and playwright with substantial experience in creating science fiction theatre (including a collaboration with Ursula K. Le Guin on a stage adaptation of her The Lathe of Heaven, and adaptations of Jack London’s Iron Heel and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), led a very informative and engaging workshop that started with a debate on defining science fiction and spoke about his experiences with directing sci-fi theatre. Dominic Allen, who had recently performed (with Simon Maeder) the successful Lovecraft-inspired show Providence, talked about devising and comedy and the participants explored sci-fi through improvisation exercises. Chloe Mashiter talked about the different kinds of worldbuilding and the art of worldbuilding in theatre. One of the workshop exercises was to explore one central idea that would lead to a new world. So again the concept of a what-if exercise but with a specific objective, to construct an imaginative world and its laws starting from the agreed what-if scenario.
During the four-day workshop series, people discussed their overall experience of science fiction plays, engaged in several different exercises including exercises to generate ideas for sci-fi plays and to perform improvised scenes based on them, as well as writing exercises, including the cold reading of one of the participants’ own sci-fi scripts.
With Edward Einhorn and his stage adaptation of Jack London’s The Iron Heel.
It seems that as science fiction theatre – apart from merely a “genre” of theatre – is a marriage of two cultures - theatre and science fiction - that a combination of approaches and exercises from both fields can lead to the optimal result. To teach sci-fi theatre (whether sci-fi playwriting or sci-fi theatre-making more broadly), it is best to combine straightforward worldbuilding and science fiction writing exercises that you would get in a science fiction writing class, with traditional theatre exercises like improvisation, writing dialogue for performance, staging / directing drafts of scripts. These conclusions are of course fairly basic and obvious; however I understand there isn’t at the moment anything close to a tradition of teaching the two – science fiction and theatre – established in either higher education or in professional theatre or creative writing workshops. This is definitely an area that hasn’t been sufficiently explored and whose benefits will prove increasingly useful to theatremakers of our current generation and of the future.
I would furthermore propose that improvisational exercises and the staging of any piece of dialogue or monologue can be beneficial to the creative writer even when writing science fiction prose; and vice versa, that taking a classical text like Hamlet, Macbeth or the Oresteia and introducing science fiction (or fantasy or horror or even Weird) elements to the plot or its staging can be a strong brainstorming exercise even when the end result is a production that doesn’t involve any of those. I hope to report more substantial and specific conclusions from future workshops, conferences and productions of science fiction theatre. For now, I hope I have provided a taste of teaching sci-fi theatre in three different contexts and for different groups of people.
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HAMMER: Here Are Three Core Reasons To Oppose A Ban On ‘Assault Weapons’
By Josh Hammer
@josh_hammer
With Democrats lining up to seek the presidency quicker than socialists lining up for rationed pieces of bread, the gun issue will once again soon find itself percolating through the public discourse. Indeed, inveterate gun-grabber Sen. Dianne Feinstein's most recent iteration of a federal "Assault Weapons Ban" features Democratic presidential hopefuls Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Bernie Sanders all as co-sponsors.
Never mind that, as even New York Times op-ed contributors have acknowledged, "The [federal] law that barred the sale of assault weapons from 1994 to 2004 made little difference." No matter. Eagerness to ban these cosmetically "scary"-looking firearms is, lamentably, now a desideratum for serious political consideration within the ranks of the increasingly hard-Left Democratic Party. In much the same way that leading Democrats must seemingly now oppose condemnation of (actual!) infanticide or equivocate on a toothless condemnation of Jew-hatred, so must these leading Democrats virtue-signal to their gun-grabbing base by pledging to outright ban a technically undefinable and cosmetically amorphous class of guns that (often uninformed) disarmament activists nonetheless deem "scary."
With the disclosure that I myself am a proud owner of one such weapon, here are at least three core reasons why such an "assault weapons ban" is woefully misguided.
1. Philosophically, "Assault Weapons" Are The Crux Of The Freedom The Second Amendment Protects.
The text of the Second Amendment reads, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The landmark 2008 U.S. Supreme Court case of D.C. v. Heller judicially established, for the first time, that the Second Amendment's prefatory clause ("A well regulated Militia...") does not in any way bring into question the textual straightforwardness of the Second Amendment's operative clause ("the right...to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"). In so doing, the Heller court vindicated the great Founding Father George Mason, who said, during the Virginia debates on the ratification of the Constitution: "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials." Indeed, to this day, U.S. law at 10 U.S.C. § 246 defines "[t]he militia of the United States" as "consist[ing] of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and...under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard."
What, then, was the purpose of arming the "militia" — this agglomeration of all able-bodied men? Perhaps primarily, it was meant to deter against what the Constitution's Framers feared as the tyranny of a standing army. Consider Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist No. 29: "...if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights." While the United States today obviously has a standing army, that same underlying fear — of a tyrannical government one day turning on its citizenry — remains ever potent. Consider this 2003 dissent from a denial to rehear a case en banc from then-Judge Alex Kozinski (a son of Holocaust survivors) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit:
[T]he simple truth — born of experience — is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people. Our own sorry history bears this out: Disarmament was the tool of choice for subjugating both slaves and free blacks in the South. In Florida, patrols searched blacks’ homes for weapons, confiscated those found and punished their owners without judicial process. In the North, by contrast, blacks exercised their right to bear arms to defend against racial mob violence. As Chief Justice Taney well appreciated, the institution of slavery required a class of people who lacked the means to resist. See Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393, 417 (1857) (finding black citizenship unthinkable because it would give blacks the right to "keep and carry arms wherever they went"). ...
All too many of the other great tragedies of history — Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few — were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.
As Kozinski aptly put it, the Framers of the U.S. Constitution viewed the Second Amendment not as a hunting license or as a license to have fun shooting at the local range — but as a "doomsday provision" guarding against a fatal mistake that "a free people get to make only once."
Given this historical background, it makes perfect sense why National Review's David French argued last year that "Assault Weapons Preserve the Purpose of the Second Amendment":
[A]n assault-weapon ban...would gut the concept of an armed citizenry as a final, emergency bulwark against tyranny. No credible person doubts that the combination of a reliable semiautomatic rifle and a large-capacity magazine is far more potent than a revolver, bolt-action rifle, or pump-action shotgun. A free citizen armed with an assault rifle is more formidable than a free citizen armed only with a pistol. A population armed with assault rifles is more formidable than a population armed with less lethal weapons.
The argument is not that a collection of random citizens should be able to go head-to-head with the Third Cavalry Regiment. That’s absurd...Rather, for the Second Amendment to remain a meaningful check on state power, citizens must be able to possess the kinds and categories of weapons that can at least deter state overreach, that would make true authoritarianism too costly to attempt.
French is spot-on. The contemporary "assault weapon" — or a "modern sporting rifle," as much of the firearms industries refers to it — is nothing less than the 21st-century equivalent of the single-shot muskets that served the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord. To a large extent, each weapon serves the precise same purpose: A deterrence against tyrannical state overreach and, if that overreach were to ever happen, as a "doomsday provision" to defend the people's God-given natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
2. From A Crime Statistics Perspective, "Assault Weapons" Are Utterly Irrelevant.
At the time President Bill Clinton signed into law the ten-year federal "assault weapons" ban in 1994, the technically undefinable and and cosmetically nebulous cluster of "military-style" (whatever that means) weapons covered by the ban accounted for a mere two percent of nationwide gun crimes. Even at the time of the ban, handguns — which, due to the underlying "common use" legal test, are expressly constitutionalized by Heller — accounted for 80 percent of gun homicides each year.
Given these statistics, it ought to be no surprise that, viewed as objectively as possible, the "assault weapons" ban did not work the first time it was tried. A 2005 report from the National Research Council noted that "a recent evaluation of the short-term effects of the 1994 federal assault weapons ban did not reveal any clear impacts on gun violence outcomes." A ProPublica investigation in 2014 found that there is "no evidence" that the 1994-2004 ban saved lives. More generally, the United States has faced a large-scale decline in gun violence since the 1990s, notwithstanding the further mass proliferation of firearms during that same time period.
The unfortunate reality for gun-grabbers is that the overwhelming majority of gun crimes in the United States are committed with handguns. Indeed, as The Daily Signal noted last year, "Handguns are used in about nine times as many murders and eight times as many nonfatal violent crimes than rifles, shotguns, and other firearms combined." In 2016, FBI statistics demonstrated that handguns were used in nineteen (!) as many murders as were rifles. And that is for all rifles, not just "assault rifles."
But handgun bans are both politically unpopular and now, per Heller, also unconstitutional. It is understandable, if unfortunate, that gun-grabbers would then look for additional bans of classes of weapons in order to virtue-signal to their political base. From a demagogic perspective, perhaps it makes sense to try to ban the amorphous, undefinable "class" of weapons that seems to be used in many of the most high-profile, attention-grabbing mass shooting atrocities. But while it may make sense from a demagogic perspective, it is illogical and irrational from a statistical perspective.
3. There Is No Technical Way To Distinguish "Assault Weapons" From Less "Scary" Rifles.
The 1994 "assault weapons" ban defined a "semiautomatic assault weapon" as a firearm that contained two or more of a set list of wholly cosmetic features that in no way affect a firearm's technical performance. Some of these features included a folding stock, a pistol-style grip, a detachable magazine, and a flash suppressor.
One does not need to be a firearms expert to understand that none of these features actually affect the lethality of a firearm. A folding stock, for instance, merely allows for more comfort for the shooter. A pistol-style grip, similarly, might just be easier or more comfortable to handle. None of these features matter in the slightest for such technical statistics as muzzle velocity or the "twist rate" of a rifle's underlying rifling. Instead, they are exactly what they look like: Wholly cosmetic features that large swaths of the political Left deem "scary"-looking. That is truly it.
Most AR-style "assault rifles," furthermore, will take .223 or 5.56 NATO ammunition. But this ammunition is actually a smaller round than what is used in many more traditional-looking, non-"assault" rifles, such as typical old-school Winchester or Remington bolt-action rifles. For example, .243 and .308 Winchester rounds are, quite literally, larger — and, therefore, more lethal — rounds than are the .223/5.56 NATO rounds that are standard-issue for most "assault rifles."
Fundamentally, the differences between between AR-style rifles and more traditional, less "scary"-looking rifles are cosmetic differences in degree — not technical differences in kind.
Read More: Gun Control Gun Laws Second Amendment
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Catalog » - English, by Author » Slattery, Dennis Patrick/Corbett, Lionel, Eds. » 9783856307011 My Account | Checkout
Depth Psychology - Meditations in the Field
Dennis Patrick Slattery & Lionel Corbett, Eds.
Depth Psychology
Meditations in the Field
280 pages, 2nd edition, ISBN 3-85630-701-X / 978-3-85630-701-1, Daimon
Developed in the spirit of C.G. Jung, and extended by the work of James Hillman, Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field grows directly from the soil of the Romantic Movement of the 19th century, itself a rebellion against the legacy of Enlightenment fundamentalism, which emphasized the literal reality of the world, and feasted on Measurement and the quantification of all knowledge.
These essays build on the observation outlined by Jung in his provocative introduction to The Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature:
"Since it is a characteristic of the psyche not only to be the source of all productivity but, more especially, to express itself in all the activities and achievements of the human mind, we can nowhere grasp the nature of the psyche per se but can meet it only in its various manifestations". (p 85)
We believe the essays in this volume honor the spirit of Jung’s regard for the psyche’s diverse expressions.
(Pacifica Institute)
Introduction: Pacifica Graduate Institute – Unfolding a Dream
A Note from the Editors
Chapter 1: The Contemplative Self – The Spiritual Journey and Therapeutic Work
by Charles Asher
Chapter 2: Creativity as an Archetypal Calling
by Dianne Skafte
Chapter 3: Psyche’s Silent Muse – Desert and Wilderness
by Dennis Patrick Slattery
Chapter 4: Sigmund Freud’s Mythology of Soul – The Body As Dwelling Place of Soul
by Christine Downing
Chapter 5: A Depth Psychological Approach to the Sacred
by Lionel Corbett
Chapter 6: Religious Pluralism in the Service of the Psyche
by Patrick J. Mahaffey
Chapter 7: The Challenge to Stay Open – Buber and Bion
by Avedis Panajian
Chapter 8: Dreams are Alive
by Stephen Aizenstat
Chapter 9: Telling Our Stories – Making Meaning from Myth and Memoir
by Maureen Murdock
Chapter 10: Divinities of Marriage
by Ginette Paris
Chapter 11: The Chrysalis Experience – A Mythology for Times of Transition
by Hendrika de Vries
Chapter 12: Look Out – Three Occasions of Public Excitation
by James Hillman
Chapter 13: ‘A Myth is as Good as a Smile!’ – The Mythology of a Consumerist Culture
by David L. Miller
Chapter 14: Yes, Indeed! Do Call the World The Vale of Soul Making – Reveries Toward an Archetypal Presence
by Robert Romanyshyn
Chapter 15: Seeding Liberation – A Dialogue Between Depth Psychology and Liberation Psychology
by Mary Watkins
Chapter 16: The Presence of Absence: Mapping Postcolonial Spaces
by Helene Shulman Lorenz
Chapter 17: Prisoners of our Imagination – The Boys Inside the American Gulag
by Aaron Kipnis
Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., founding president and core faculty member of Pacifica Graduate Institute, is a clinical psychologist whose research centers on a psychodynamic process of “tending the living image,” particularly in the context of dreamwork. His approach to the dream is called DreamTending. Dr. Aizenstat brought the insights of depth psychology and dreamwork to the Earth Charter International Workshop, where he was a participant-observer in this United Nations project. Still actively involved in the Earth Charter Project, Dr. Aizenstat has conducted dreamwork seminars for more than 25 years throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Charles Asher, D.Min. is Provost of Pacifica Graduate Institute, a core faculty member, Jungian Analyst, and an Oblate of the Order of St. Benedict, Camaldolese, New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur, California. He is the author of The Contemplative Self and Soundings as well as other articles on psychology and religion.
Lionel Corbett, M.D., is a British-trained psychiatrist and Jungian analyst and core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is the author of The Religious Function of the Psyche. He is also director of the continuing education program, Psyche and the Sacred.
Hendrika de Vries M.T.S., M.F.T., teaches in the Mythological Studies program of Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her background is in theology, mythology, and Jungian depth-psychology. She has led workshops and seminars nationally using mythic imagination, dreams, and archetypal mind-body awareness to facilitate psychospiritual development. Hendrika is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Santa Barbara.
Christine Downing, Ph.D., for 20 years chair of the Religious Studies Department at San Diego State University, has been associated with Pacifica since before it WAS Pacifica and before its move to our beautiful Carpinteria campus, but it is only since the establishment of the Mythological Studies program that it has become the center of her academic life. Indeed, her teaching at Pacifica is so fulfilling and so challenging that although she had earlier published nine books (including The Goddess, Myths and Mysteries of Same-Sex Love, and Gods in Our Midst), she hasn’t managed to complete the Holocaust memoir she began five years ago.
James Hillman, Ph.D., renowned author and psychoanalyst, is a leading scholar of Jungian and Archetypal Psychology. An innovative clinician and an inspiring teacher, Dr. Hillman has led the movement in psychology which aims to broaden the focus of therapy to include in its care disorders of the world soul. Having retired from analytical practice after 40 years, Dr. Hillman now devotes his critical attention to concerns of contemporary culture. Author of Bestsellers, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character & Calling and recently The Force of Character and the Lasting Life.
Aaron Kipnis, Ph.D., is president of the Fatherhood Coalition, a nonprofit organization that supports positive male involvement in family planning, parenting, relationships, and community. He is author of Angry Young Men; Knights Without Armor; co-author of What Women and Men Really Want; and contributor to many anthologies and journals. Dr. Kipnis is on the core faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is also a regular speaker and consultant on male psychology and gender issues to professional organizations, governmental agencies, universities, national media, treatment facilities, and training institutes. Please visit www.malepsych.com for more information and an e-mail link to the author.
Patrick Mahaffey, Ph.D., is the Chair of the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is a religious studies scholar who teaches courses on Asian religious traditions and hermeneutical research methods. He has published essays on religious pluralism, myth in the context of postmodernity, and on religion in American culture.
Helene Shulman Lorenz, Ph.D., is currently the Academic Dean and a Core Faculty Member at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA and a Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. She is the author of Living at the Edge of Chaos: Complex Systems in Psyche and Culture. Active for many years in cultural movements for social justice and development in Latin America and the United States, she has written a number of articles, and is at work on a book, about individuation, decolonization, and community.
David L. Miller, Ph.D., is the Watson-Ledden Professor of Religion at Syracuse University and a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He also teaches at the Jung Institute in Zurich and was a member of the Eranos Circle in Switzerland from 1975 until 1988. Miller is the author of five books and over sixty articles and book chapters.
Maureen Murdock, M.A., M.F.T., is a core faculty member of Pacifica Graduate Institute and the author of The Heroine’s Journey; Fathers’ Daughters: Transforming the Father-Daughter Relationship; and Spinning Inward: Using Guided Imagery with Children. Her books have been translated into French, Dutch, German, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Hebrew, Portuguese and Spanish. Murdock is writing a book on the mythic dimension of memoir and teaches creative writing in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.
Avedis Panajian, Ph.D., is a faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and training analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California, California Graduate Institute, and Newport Psychiatric Institute. He is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Panajian is a recipient of the Distinguished Educator Award from the California Psychological Association and is currently in private practice in Beverly Hills.
Ginette Paris, Ph.D., is a psychologist and the author of books on Greek and Roman mythology, among which are Pagan Meditations, Pagan Grace, and Mythology: A CD-ROM Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology. She is a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute and the Research Coordinator for Mythological Studies Program.
Robert D. Romanyshyn, Ph.D., is an author, teacher, and international lecturer. In addition to three books, he has published more than fifty articles in journals and edited volumes. He has been described as a master storyteller with a gift for expressing the insights of the soul with the voice of a poet. His primary interest lies in being a spokesperson for the marginalized and neglected values of the soul, including its longing for beauty, its desire for a sense of the sacred, and its hunger to remember its instinctual, vegetative, and mineral roots in nature. Robert lives with his wife, Veronica, and two of their four children in Summerland, California.
Dianne Skafte, Ph.D., lectures widely on oracular traditions in ancient and modern cultures. A past Academic Vice President of Pacifica Graduate Institute, she has taught in the field of depth psychology for over a decade. Her book, When Oracles Speak, has been translated into three languages.
Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D., has been teaching for 31 years, including grade school, high school, junior college and university levels. He has written over 160 articles, poems and reviews. He is the author of The Idiot: Dostoevsky’s Fantastic Prince and The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh. His interests are in the area of psyche, mythopoetics, the mimetic impulse of the psyche and body woundedness. He also enjoys writing for newspapers and magazines on current topics seen through a mythological lens. He is married and has two sons.
Mary Watkins, Ph.D., is coordinator of community & ecological fieldwork and research for Pacifica’s Depth Psychology Doctoral Program. She has chaired both Master’s Program in Counseling Psychology and the Depth Psychology Doctoral Program. She is the author of Waking Dreams, Invisible Guests: The Development of Imaginal Dialogues, co-author of Talking With Young Children About Adoption, and co-editor of Psychology and the Promotion of Peace.
The Pacifica Institute
As Pacifica continues to develop and more people are drawn to our programs, our learning community faces the challenge of keeping a place for soul in the midst of success and growth. In the daily activities on campus, we are coming to appreciate the custodial nature of this work. A thing of beauty calls for a measure of protection. We are stewards of a vision, an ideal which has selected us. Our purpose is to bring the creative depths of the human psyche into relationship with the citizens, the institutions, and the forces of nature that make up the world. In so doing, we consciously acknowledge the social landscape of which we are a part. We are committed to contributing back into this world an awareness of the unfolding richness of the human psyche. As institutional, academic, and political challenges converge, it is vital to the Pacifica vision that we reflect on and embody a larger sense of the needs of the planet.
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Home News Verwoerd’s grandson heading to Parliament
Verwoerd’s grandson heading to Parliament
A direct descendant of the “Architect of Apartheid”, Hendrik Verwoerd, has secured a seat in Parliament.
Wynand Boshoff. Picture: Soraya Crowie
Dr Wynand Johannes Boshoff, the grandson of Verwoerd, will represent the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) as a Member of Parliament after securing a seat following the 2019 general elections.
Verwoerd is often dubbed the “Architect of Apartheid” for his role in shaping the implementation of the apartheid policy when he was minister of native affairs and then prime minister.
He once described apartheid as a “policy of good neighbourliness”.
Boshoff is also the son of Orania founder Professor Carel Boshoff.
Carel was Verwoerd’s son-in-law. He married Verwoerd’s daughter Anna.
Carel was a professor of theology and was also an Afrikaner cultural activist. He is known as the founder of Orania, the Afrikaner settlement located along the Orange River in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape.
Carel was the president of the Orania movement (‘Orania Beweging’) until 2007. He became disabled due to an illness and his position as president was taken over by his son Carel Boshoff IV.
The FF+ more than doubled its support in the Northern Cape in last week’s 2019 general elections, with votes for the party increasing from 1.09% to 2.82% over the past five years. In the 2014 general elections the FF+ obtained 165 715 national votes, while in this cycle the party received 414 864 votes.
The FF+ is now the fifth biggest party in Parliament and gained six more seats, bringing its number of MPs to 10. A further two FF+ members now also serve on the National Council of Provinces.
Boshoff said yesterday that while preliminary polling outcome predictions did indicate that the FF+ would show strong growth, the party was really happy with the official outcome, adding that it “believed in growing through taking small steps”.
He added that the new supporters were mainly from minority groups who were looking for a party that would explicitly look after their own interests, especially culturally.
While Boshoff resided in Orania from 1993, he started working as a FF+ councillor at the Sol Plaatje Municipality in Kimberley from 2016 and has stayed there part-time since.
Kobus van den Berg will now take over his position as councillor at the Sol Plaatje Municipality.
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1/22/2009 | 14 MINUTE READ
The outlook for composite pressure vessels
Environmental and economic pressures continue to drive growth in the market for composite pressure vessels used in personal and public transportation applications.
The International Association of Natural Gas Vehicles (IANGV, Auckland, New Zealand) forecasts that the NGV vehicle fleet will expand from 6.8 million units in 2006 to 65 million by the end of the next decade. Source: IANGV
This roof-mounted CNG storage rack for a CNG-powered bus contains three composite-wrapped pressure vessels that were filament wound by pressure-vessel manufacturer Dynetek Industries (Calgary, Alberta, Canada). Source: Dynetek Industries
Note: Cost per GGE (gasoline gallon equivalent) is given in U.S. dollars. Data provided by The Energy Information Admin.’s Alternative Fuels & Advanced Vehicles Data Center. Source: The Energy Information Admin.
Source: CompositeMarketReports.com
The FCX Clarity, the first production passenger vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells, rolled off Honda Motor Co.’s (Tokyo, Japan) production lines in mid-June 2008. Source: Honda Motor Co.
This illustration depicts the four-vessel ISO container that will hold Lincoln Composite’s (Lincoln, Neb.) trademarked Titan 40-ft/12.2m long, carbon fiber-reinforced plastic gas transport vessels. Source: Hexagon Composites
Note: Data sourced from the International Association of Natural Gas Vehicles (IANGV, Auckland, New Zealand). Source: CompositeMarketReports.com
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The natural gas vehicle (NGV) industry has been growing at double-digit rates, and with it, the demand for pressure vessels capable of safely containing and storing natural gas fuels has grown as well. NGVs have a considerable history, stretching back at least to the 1930s and World War II. Despite more than 75 years of operational experience, however, less than 2 million NGVs traveled the world’s roadways in 2000 — only about 0.2 percent of all automobiles in service. But an unprecedented combination of economic and environmental factors have changed the auto production landscape.
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Drivers for double-digit growth
In the economic realm, the factor is oil. As the average prices of fuels have risen over the past eight years, low-cost natural gas gained favor in Asia, South America and throughout the Middle East. Even countries that are net exporters of their oil production are directing much of domestic automobile production toward the use of natural gas. Statistics provided by the International Association of Natural Gas Vehicles (IANGV, Auckland, New Zealand) indicate that over the past six years, the number of NGVs has grown more than 25 percent annually. When 2008 figures are in, the worldwide NGV fleet is expected to stand at more than 9 million vehicles. By vehicle type, automobiles account for almost 93 percent, buses almost 2.5 percent, and medium- to heavy-duty trucks just under 2 percent of the total NGV market.
Chief among the environmental factors is the specter of global warming. The National Climatic Data Center, a division of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. (Washington, D.C.), recently concluded that 2008 was the eighth warmest year on record, with land and ocean surface temperatures that averaged nearly 58°F, about 0.88°F above the 20th Century average. NASA scientists, using a different measuring process, disagree. They say that 2008 was the ninth hottest year ever recorded. Regardless of who is correct, the 10 hottest years since such records have been kept have all occurred since 1997. Although many other factors have an impact on global climate change, the human need for energy is a key contributor.
With good reason, much of the con-cern about controlling greenhouse-gas emissions is focused on the transportation sector. Globally, about 86 percent of all energy is derived from burning fossil fuels. Oil accounts for about 37 percent of the global energy mix and is used almost entirely for transportation fuels. The rub here is that, despite 1.1 percent growth in global demand in 2007 (during which time the price of oil doubled to almost $100 per barrel), oil-producing regions, on average, saw production drop by 0.2 percent. Although year-end 2008 statistics have not been finalized, it appears that the global oil consumption was on par with 2007 figures. Yet, even as the price of oil reached historic highs in the third quarter of last year, figures for oil production were essentially flat or falling. Although there is little fear that the world’s supply of oil will run out in the near future, the prospect of increasing available supplies appears to be limited.
Events in the past several years also have highlighted the need to adjust energy policies around the world to address supply security and the political and military entanglements that often result. Trillions of dollars are spent each year by nonproducers and producers to import oil annually (estimates for 2008 U.S. oil imports alone total between $450 billion and $700 billion). There is growing consensus that something must be done soon. Although concrete plans to change energy policies of individual countries are often nebulous targets, subject to the influence of economic conditions, there is widespread agreement that change will come, whether we like it or not. Change is often uncomfortable, but in this case it will provide a boon to the alternative energy and composites industries.
Trending toward alternative energy
When one considers the price and supply volatility of petroleum-based fuels, the “green” mandate, the political skirmishes over a tightening oil supply and many other factors, it should come as no surprise that alternative energy is gaining traction. The increasing number of alternative-fuel concept cars and production vehicles shows that petroleum-based fuels are under challenge. Yet, although the future limelight shines brightly on hybrid electric, plug-in electric and hydrogen fuel-cell cars, the natural gas-powered vehicles are proven, practical, economical and available.
Despite the fact that oil prices have recently dropped back to 2003-2004 levels, there is little confidence that they will stay down and not return to the $65- to $100-per-barrel range over the next few years. And because the prices of gasoline and diesel consistently range about 30 percent per gallon of gasoline-equivalent higher than natural gas, it should come as little surprise that the number of NGVs produced around the world is growing rapidly.
Trying to err on the conservative side, the IANGV projects an average growth rate of 18 percent per year through the end of the next decade. At this rate, by the end of 2020, there are expected to be about 65 million NGVs on the road. Although the existing supplies of natural gas (composed today of about 90 percent methane gas) are varied, and some are even renewable, for the automotive industry natural gas comes in only two forms: liquefied natural gas (LNG) and compressed natural gas (CNG). The LNG systems are a component of many medium- and heavyweight vehicles in North America and Europe, but the process of generating and storing LNG at cryogenic temperatures adds considerably to their cost. Accordingly, the lower-cost CNG systems are the most popular. CNG-based fueling systems are found in nearly all passenger vehicle applications and in more than 80 percent of all medium- and heavy-duty trucks and transit buses. Clearly, there is already an annual market for millions of CNG containment vessels, a significant portion of which utilize composite reinforcements.
Pressure vessels today are classed in four categories, based on their type of construction:
• CNG Type I: All-metal construction, generally steel.
• CNG Type II: Mostly metal with some fiber overwrap in the hoop direction, mostly steel or aluminum with a glass fiber composite; the metal vessel and composite materials share about equalstructural loading.
• CNG Type III: Metal liner with full composite overwrap, generally aluminum, with a carbon fiber composite; the composite materials carry the structural loads.
• CNG Type IV: An all-composite construction, polymer (typically high-density polyethylene or HDPE) liner with carbon fiber or hybrid carbon/glass fiber composite; the composite materials carry all the structural loads.
Each type of pressure vessel has its benefits and liabilities. Type I vessels are the least expensive, with estimated production costs of roughly $5 per liter of volume. The metalworking skills and equipment needed to produce them are widely available internationally. To their detriment, Type I vessels also are the heaviest, weighing approximately 3.0 lb/l (1.4 kg/l). By comparison, Type II vessels cost about 50 percent more to manufacture but can reduce the weight of the storage containers by 30 to 40 percent. Type III and Type IV vessels take the weight savings even further, weighing between 0.75 and 1.0 lb/l (0.3 to 0.45 kg/l). The cost of Type III and Type IV vessels, however, is roughly 2 times greater than Type II vessels and 3.5 times greater than the all-metal Type I tanks.
Market molded by price pressure
The plus/minus factors have a predictable impact on current usage figures. Looking at the global marketplace, it’s readily apparent that the largest regional markets for NGVs are in South America (49 percent) and the Middle East (26 percent). If we sort the data differently, accounting for the number of vehicles in service in each of 85 countries, we gain a better perspective on the subject. Argentina, Brazil, Pakistan, Italy and Iran currently rank as the five countries with the most NGVs in service. Together, they host about 75 percent of the world’s total NGV fleet. Supporting the growth of domestic industries is a major objective of these countries. In these national markets, the upfront cost is probably the most significant factor in NGV purchasing decisions and, with the exception of Italy, each has a developing industrial base that has limited access to composites processing capabilities. It makes perfect sense, then, that CNG Type I pressure vessels — all-metal construction — are the most common. Because developing economies will continue to make up the majority of the forecasted market for CNG-powered vehicles, the Type I pressure vessels are expected to maintain a market share of about 93 percent (by unit volume) over the next few years.
The composite vessel value proposition
On the surface, this may not sound encouraging to current or prospective manufacturers of composite pressure vessels. Given the overall growth rate projected for future NGV sales, however, the 7 percent attributed to Type II, III and IV pressure vessels represents a rapidly expanding market for composite materials, manufacturing equipment and processing technologies.
Several factors indicate that this will be so. First, constructing pressure vessels, in whole or in part, from composites reduces fuel system and vehicle weight. On a typical transit bus or commercial truck, for example, the use of Type III and Type IV vessels easily could reduce the weight of the gas containment system by more than 1,000 lb (454 kg). This weight reduction would not only improve fuel economy but increase load-carrying capacity and introduce other operational benefits as well, making it possible for the more expensive tanks to buy their way onto vehicles.
Second, composite vessels extend the practical limit for gas containment pressures and provide better energy storage density. For many high-pressure applications — requiring cylinders rated at 5,000 psi (344.7 bar) or greater — Type III and Type IV vessels represent the most practical solution.
Third, composite materials signifi-cantly improve the pressure vessel’s corrosion resistance and overall safety. Finally, for those composite vessels that incorporate carbon fiber tow as reinforcement, the excellent fatigue resistance of these fibers also extends the vessel’s service life. Carbon fiber-reinforced Type III and Type IV pressure vessels can remain in use up to 30 years before they require replacement — twice the interval allowed for Type I and Type II vessels.
These benefits, combined with higher petroleum fuel costs, underlie a growing interest outside of Europe and North America in developing more sophisticated composites manufacturing capabilities. For companies in India, China, Argentina and Iran, the development of products beyond current Type I storage systems also represents an opportunity to compete in the market for high-value products, which has been dominated, thus far, by a small number of North American and European manufacturers. Although technology controls restrict the export of certain carbon composite materials and related manufacturing equipment and technologies to some countries, it is nevertheless clear that pressure vessel manufacturers in China, India, Argentina and several other countries are moving in this direction.
Growth markets by the numbers
As previously indicated, the strongest growth markets for CNG pressure vessels are to be found in the developing economies of the world. Of the more than 2 million CNG-powered vehicles delivered globally during 2008, about 90 percent of them — representing about 4.5 million Type I, primarily, and some Type II pressure vessels — were delivered to customers outside of Europe and North America.
By way of comparison, the European and North American demand for these systems is expected to total about 2 million pressure vessels between 2009 and 2013, while the rest of the world will likely demand 32 million. It is not rocket science to predict that, in this age of globalization, high-value, high-tech vessel manufacturers will find their best expansion opportunities outside their borders. They will establish pro-ducts and manufacturing capacity in international growth regions, either as wholly-owned assets or, perhaps more likely, as joint-venture partnerships with well-established, local manufacturing firms. Given the current slowdown in CNG bus sales in Europe and the U.S., international expansion may be the best route to take for Type III and Type IV vessel manufacturers that hope to sustain and grow their businesses over the next couple of years.
Of the 36.5 million pressure vessels that we expect to be produced between now and 2013, nearly 2.5 million are should be of CNG Types II, III and IV. Annual production of these three vessel types stands, today, at roughly 295,000 units. Together, these vessels represent approximately 6.8 million lb (3.1 million kg) of finished composite product, conservatively valued at $105 million. This figure is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 19 percent over the next five years, although 2009 unit volumes are expected to be only about 5 to 8 percent higher than the past year (largely because of demand for Type II cylinders). Despite this, sales of composite pressure vessels are expected to grow to $250 million, worldwide, by 2013. Moreover, this market has the potential for much greater expansion, and could total as much as $560 million and more than 20 million lb (9,072 metric tonnes) of glass fiber and carbon fiber composites annually by the end of the next decade!
Production of composite pressure vessels at these volumes will require a significant expansion of manufacturing capacity and will provide opportunities to new suppliers. Despite a temporary slowdown in sales of Type III and IV pressure vessels, suppliers of these products are expanding their facilities. Inflex-Argentoil S.A. (Buenos Aires, Argentina), one of the world’s leading suppliers of Type I and II pressure vessels, has been regularly expanding its in-house and joint-venture production throughout South America and the Middle East, and is growing its product line with Type III vessels. Hypercomp Engineering (Brigham City, Utah) is expecting to receive certification for its first commercial Type IV CNG pressure vessels for vehicle applications in mid-February, with production slated to start soon thereafter.
The rapid market expansion outlined here will likely rely on a combination of improved manufacturing processes. For many of the smaller pressure vessels used in automobiles and smaller bus and van applications, the need to accommodate large production volumes will likely spur manufacturers to capitalize automated production equipment. Filament winding systems that produce multiple pressures vessels simultaneously will dramatically reduce the factory overhead and labor costs included in the price of each cylinder produced. Restrictions on the transfer of carbon fiber manufacturing technology to security-sensitive regions around the world are likely to continue. That will ensure that high-strength glass fibers designed to improve performance over that of today’s E-glass products, such as AGY’s (Aiken, S.C.) new S-1 products, will find significant avenues for growth within the pressure-vessel market.
Beyond the NGV market, continuing developments in nascent applications, notably hydrogen-gas storage tanks for fuel-cell power systems and large-scale tanks for bulk gas storage and transport, are likely to increase the value of the composite pressure vessel market.
Bulk transport systems string together a series of much larger Type III and Type IV cylinders (with future potential to use some Type II vessels as well). These are fitted to truck trailers to deliver natural gas to markets that are without a pipeline infrastructure, and to reach and retrieve stranded gas reserves. By way of comparison, a typical CNG cylinder for an automobile or bus measures between 15 and 150 liters of volume, and bulk hauling tank designs are two or more times larger. The largest design offered to date is the 40-ft/12.2m long, 4,600 lb (2,087 kg) all-composite Titan manufactured by Lincoln Composites (Lincoln, Neb.), a sister company to Raufoss Fuel Systems (Raufoss, Norway) and a subsidiary of Hexagon Composites (Ålesund, Norway). During the first half of last year, Dynetek Industries (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) received U.S. Department of Transportation approval for two Type III products rated at 3,000 psi and 6,500 psi (206 bar and 450 bar), which are arranged into modules of 39 vessels each on truck trailers that carry either three or six modules. These bulk-transport applications are still seeking commercial and/or regulatory acceptance, but they have the potential to contribute an additional 1.6 million to 1.8 million lb (726 to 816 metric tonnes) of composite pressure vessels annually, worth about $50 million, by 2013.
Hydrogen gas storage is another extension of CNG pressure vessel tech-nology, but taken to extreme performance levels. Honda Motor Co. (Tokyo, Japan) began production of its FCX Clarity fuel-cell vehicle in limited numbers in June of last year with the intention of raising production to as many as 200 vehicles per year by 2010. Limited numbers of hydrogen-powered buses and a growing number of demonstration vehicles guarantee that at least a few hundred of the 5,000 to 15,000 psi (345 to 1,034 bar) Type III and Type IV carbon fiber-reinforced pressure vessels will be produced each year. Although fuel-cell technology is constantly advancing, it is unlikely that the issues involved in fuel-cell-system and gas-storage costs will be adequately addressed soon enough to enable more widespread production over the next five years. Much like the bulk gas transport vessels, hydrogen storage technology offers a vast market expansion opportunity in the long-term. However, the numbers for near-term hydrogen potential will be, optimistically, a little smaller than the figures for bulk gas transport.
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I’m sure many of you are as frustrated as me in researching the arguments pro-remain and pro-leave for the EU referendum. If it was anything like my experience then it proved to be a challenge sifting through the arguments peddled to fit within certain agendas.
Apart from the subject of immigration, one of the key campaign elements to sway voters one way another was the results impact on the NHS. In this post I aim to provide an unbiased commentary of both sides of the argument allowing you to make your own mind-up on the future of the NHS following the UK public’s decision to leave the European Union.
£350 million per week funding
One of the more prominent claims made by the Leave campaign was that the money we send to the EU each year, which essentially is paid to retain membership equates to £5.2 billion. Vote leave claim the UK sends £350 million per week to the EU, money that the Leave campaign say can be invested back into the NHS by the government upon Brexit and help provide a monetary boost to the already fragile financial situation the NHS finds itself.
Whilst this figure quoted by the Leave campaign is accurate, it doesn’t take into consideration the rebate that the UK receives from the EU. When subtracted from the original figure, it works out at around £150 million per week – that’s less than half the figure that has been promoted by the Leave campaign.
Even then, there’s no guarantee that all or any of this money will be pumped back into the NHS as Nigel Farage stated. That decision is completely dependent on the government. NHS leaders have already called for quick clarity over this issue as obviously it will go a long way to securing the financial situation of the NHS.
Reliance on EU staff
To help cope with the level of demand asked of the NHS over the last few decades where people are living longer and thus requiring much chronic treatment, the NHS has had to look to EU workers to help support it.
From figures I have found, EU immigrants make up around 10% of the total NHS workforce in the UK and 5% in England. Whilst it is unlikely that Brexit will threaten the jobs of this segment of the NHS workforce, it risks casting uncertainty in their minds and shuts the door on the NHS bolstering its workforce with EU citizens in the future.
The Remain campaign argue that with the transition from secondary care to social care is heavily reliant on workers from the EU and this puts elderly patients and those patients with chronic health conditions at risk. Now that Britain plans to leave the EU, this transition is under threat at a time where social care is deemed vital to the future of the NHS.
The Issue of Migration
Migration, a main component of the campaign for the UK to leave EU also has an impact on the NHS. The argument championed by the Leave campaign predicts that a reduced influx of EU will reduce pressure on our critical NHS services upon leaving.
At a time where the NHS is struggling with meeting their A&E waiting time targets and reports of high numbers of staff absence through stress and anxiety related illnesses, this may well prove to act as a positive for NHS staff.
It should be pointed out that just by leaving the EU and having control of our own borders doesn’t necessarily guarantee that net migration will go down, this is purely down to the government in power.
Essentially, nobody really knows what will happen next. The only thing we can really do is look to what we know today and try to guess what will happen tomorrow – which is what I’ve tried to pull out from this blog.
The impact of Brexit still remains to be seen not only for the NHS but also across the UK and the world. What is sure is that the coming months and years will be fuelled with uncertainty as markets attempt to stabilise and the two year process to leave the EU begins.
During this period, it is critical that the NHS continues to commit to improving efficiency in all areas across the organisation. At a time with so much uncertainty, it is plausible that having the best information and analytical tools could certainly help to improve the quality of health services and to identify opportunities to increase efficiency.
Sustainable Healthcare: Empowering the NHS with Big Data
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The Power Elite Playbook, Japan, Land of Western Industrialization Part 16
- by Deanna Spingola, 17 November, 2008
In Japan - "For a thousand years, it was the policy of emperors and shoguns to keep the people ignorant, and to keep taxes high enough so families had to struggle to survive, because this kept them fully occupied and harmless."1
J. P. Morgan was involved in Japan during the Meiji Restoration (1867-1912) which replaced the ruling Tokugawa Shogunate with the restored imperial family. This trade-off of power was merely a cosmetic change. Assets were confiscated from the Tokugawa shoguns and used to build factories and railroads. These assets were then privatized into four major zaibatsu (conglomerates): Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Iwasaki. A zaibatsu could be comprised of mines, factories, banks, ocean fleets, insurance companies and export agencies. These four zaibatsus retained their exclusivity through kinship, marriage, school associations, bribes or any other secret or social arrangement.2 This is very similar to America's elite class.
J. P. Morgan, always alert to profit potential, arranged financing for selected American entrepreneurs. Morgan financed Thomas Edison's incandescent light and invested in Edison's power generation and distribution plants. In 1891, he took over the Thomson-Houston Company and the Edison Company to form General Electric.3 Tesla resisted financial support from Morgan as he had seen how the robber baron had "coveted and threatened the autonomy of Westinghouse."4 Morgan wanted to acquire Nikola Tesla's patents, probably to conceal the possibility of profitless, wireless electricity through Tesla's AC (alternating current) induction motor.5
Thomas Lamont, a J.P. Morgan partner by 1911, had arranged the financing and purchasing of American supplies for France and Britain during World War I as the major purchasing agent for the British Army and Navy and for the French government. By the end of WWI, J. P. Morgan Bank had handled $3 billion in commercial transactions, netting $3 million in fees. It had arranged over $1.5 billion in credits and had become the world's most influential bank, moving it into the political arena of foreign policy, thereby serving as a virtual extension of the federal government.6 Ironically, J.P. Morgan, war profiteer, had paid three hundred dollars to evade military service in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Post-WWI, Lamont negotiated Germany's deliberately crippling reparations payments. In 1920, with the approval of commerce secretary Herbert Hoover, Jack Morgan (J. P.'s son) sent Lamont to Asia in search of additional clients and investment opportunities. Lamont met with Japan's elite. Japan had prospered during World War I and had acquired huge gold reserves. This early collaboration would set a precedent for the corporate collusion that followed the Second World War.7
Between 1899 and 1930 banks and western manufacturers made large foreign direct investments (FDIs) in what is referred to as multinational enterprises (MNEs). This occurred in technologically advanced industries, like machine equipment and electric machinery, areas that were weak or nonexistent in Japan.8 The Vanderbilts and J.P. Morgan bought a one-third interest in Gray (the real inventor of the telephone) and Barton in 1872 and then changed its name to the Western Electric Manufacturing Company.9
One of the first U.S./Japan joint ventures was Nippon Electric Company (NEC), established in 1899 with Western Electric, as a 54 percent shareholder. During the 1920s, other joint ventures included U.S. automobile companies. Toyota's sales organization began with American marketing methods acquired while working with Ford and General Motors which had established assembly operations. The U.S. companies purchased local parts which helped to create a network of suppliers. Nissan began as a Ford parts supplier. Many of the joint ventures ultimately became prominent Japanese corporations.10
Westinghouse transferred technology and management techniques to Mitsubishi Electric, founded in 1921. Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd, a British firm, created Dunlop Japan, founded in 1909, which ultimately became Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., the first Japanese-owned rubber company to make automobile tires. Initially, Sumitomo depended on Dunlop engineers and skilled workers for its production technology.11
The Japanese government would eventually place restrictions on Ford and General Motors in the 1930s. Consequently, these companies would divest from Japan prior to World War II. Nissan and Toyota took over former Ford and General Motors suppliers, dealers and strategic personnel. After World War II, Japan used licensing agreements rather than FDIs. From 1950 to 1970, the Japanese government approved 7,800 licensing contracts in the area of chemicals, food, machinery, steel and other industries which escalated Japan's postwar economic growth.12
Japan's prosperity in the 1920s was enjoyed only by the elite who controlled the nation's wealth as well as a stable of corrupt government officials. Increased population and unemployment, especially in rural Japan led to horrific exploitation of laborers who often lived and worked in squalor. Outcasts, indentured workers, prisoners, evicted farmers from Korea and Manchuria worked and frequently died in Mitsubishi coals mines. Thousands of pre-teen girls slaved in wretched conditions. Labor and social movements were forcefully suppressed.13
In 1925, the Peace Preservation Law was passed. Criticism of the emperor or his government in any way, even by implication was a crime punishable by death. Opposing candidates could face arrest which restricted membership in Japan's parliament, the Diet, to the far right. By 1928, the Peace Preservation Law became even more restrictive - anyone speaking against, or even thinking about changing government policy could incur life in prison or the death penalty. Dissent was absolutely stifled. People were denied a trial by jury. Education Minister Hatoyama targeted primary and secondary school teachers who entertained dangerous thoughts. In November 1928, Hirohito was formally enthroned during a mythological Shinto ceremony. Four days later he was deified as a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu.14
J. P. Morgan Bank, known in Japan as the Morgan zaibatsu, flush with war profits, loaned $150 million to Japan for the rebuilding of Tokyo after the destructive Kant? earthquake of September 1, 1923.15 Japan, thereafter would be Morgan Bank's special customer. With the earthquake came a 36-foot tall tsunami followed by a thick yellow cloud of dust rising from the thousands of collapsed buildings. Tens of thousands of homes, flexible and generally earthquake proof burst into flames. Tokyo burned and refugees fled. Thousands perished. On the Kant? Plain, Japan's biggest agricultural region, farms and warehouses were damaged or destroyed. Even Tokyo Bay burst into flame due to 100,000 tons of spilt fuel from the Yokosuka naval base. Two million people were rendered homeless. Hirohito's palace, behind a wide moat, survived the earthquake and the flaming inferno. Mob violence erupted and lasted for two weeks. Food, water and shelter were scarce. The U.S. donated canned beans.16
To avoid shame for their inadequacies in providing solutions, government officials accused Korean and Chinese immigrants of looting, murder, arson and rape. Fears were fueled by the media and martial law was proclaimed. The extreme right provoked violence against leftists and immigrants. Vigilantes murdered thousands. When the government finally halted the terror, they insisted that the Koreans provoked it.17 Tyrannical governments always cast the blame on others: illegal aliens, bungling borrowers, incompetent managers, Arab hijackers, Jews - anyone but themselves.
Prince Asaka's (1887-1981) opulent Takanawa palace was destroyed in the Kant? earthquake. He had it rebuilt. The Art Deco style palace, ultimately finished in 1933, was even more luxurious.18 He continued to live there until he died of old age in 1981, despite claims of imperial poverty and alleged post-WWII loss of property.19 To conceal their wealth and avoid confiscation, some imperial family members transferred ownership of palaces and other properties and personal belongings to the well-connected Tsutsumi family. However, they never actually vacated their properties or relinquished their belongings. (More on that later in this series.)20 Prince Asaka ordered and directed the brutal atrocities committed during the 6-week assault against Nanking, then the capital of China, the incident that destroyed any hope of peace.
With the Japanese banking crisis of 1927 (similar to the one in the late 1990s), a financial panic gripped Tokyo. Many of Japan's biggest banks had made massive unsecured loans to businesses that were, in fact, owned by the same bankers or their friends or family. This predictably created a sense of prosperity and reckless expansion. There were no audits, no oversight - just easy money. Years without interest collection led to a major crisis and a government bailout loan of 2 billion yen which only assisted the privileged individuals who had triggered the dilemma. Eight hundred out of 1,422 pre-crisis smaller banks inevitably collapsed, reducing competition.21 Compare this to the $700 billion Wall Street open-ended bailout of September 2008.22
During the 1927 panic, the ruling elite again contacted Thomas W. Lamont, J. P. Morgan's principle financier. He immediately responded and offered direction to his banking buddies and visited Hirohito, who had assumed the emperor's throne on December 25, 1926. Lamont was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun. Hirohito would wage his first war of aggression against China's Shandong Province in May 1927,23 and sanctioned Japan's second and third military Shandong expeditions. Hirohito's rule, from 1927 to Japan's surrender in August 1945, was distinguished by Japan's plundering wars of aggression.24
Back in New York, Lamont arranged the following: $263 million in new bond issues for Japanese borrowers; additional Kant? earthquake reconstruction loans for Tokyo; a guaranteed loan to Japan's electric utility in Taiwan; and a $25 million bank credit to the Yokohama Specie Bank to stabilize their currency to help Japan get back on the gold standard.25 The emperor owned 22 percent of that bank's stock. Gold and platinum had been hoarded by Asians for generations as they distrusted banks and governments. The deprivations of the imminent worldwide depression reinforced the people's distrust of paper currency, making gold and other tangible assets even more desirable.26
Approximately one half of Japan's small businesses failed because of the orchestrated Wall Street crash of 1929. Japan's ultra nationalists believed that the depression was a Western racist scheme. Between 1929 and 1931, the value of Japanese exports fell by 43 percent. Rural families were devastated by a 50 percent reduction in farm produce. Other economic conditions such as taxes and rent forced many small farmers off their lands. Whole villages starved, tens of thousands of children were sold into prostitution by their desperate families. During the 1930s, 200,000 girls would be sold into prostitution annually.27
War takes the focus off of a failing economy! In a false flag attempt to provoke Chang's Manchu troops into attacking Japanese units, Japanese officers murdered Manchurian warlord Chang Tso-lin in 1928 with the objective of allowing Japan to counter attack and seize Manchuria. Emperor Hirohito, upon learning of the incident, concealed it, thereby sanctioning future terrorist acts. It took three years and several more terrorist actions to get the desired response. The devised Manchurian Incident of 1931 was blamed on ill-equipped Chinese soldiers but it enabled Japan to seize Manchuria, 440,000 square miles - an ideal source of food and raw materials - a solution to Japan's financial and social crisis. Morgan banker, Thomas W. Lamont, supported Japan's seizure and probably financed it, while President Hoover publicly denounced but privately endorsed the action.28
Chinese citizens stopped purchasing Japanese exports which fell about 90 percent in 1932. Japanese provocateurs posing as monks started a fight with a Shanghai mob and the two "monks" were slain. Westerners in China's International Settlement were appalled at the Japanese machinations. Lamont conceded that Japan's aggressiveness might make Japanese loans troublesome.29
Harvard-educated Lamont had been Herbert Hoover's biggest political and financial supporter. President Hoover (1928-1932) installed Douglas MacArthur as the Army Chief of Staff.30 During the Great Depression, Japan was still an important market for American products. Trade privileges were tendered to insure cooperation, peace and prosperity, especially in view of the growing enemy, Communism. In June 1932, Hoover appointed, with Lamont's support, Harvard-educated Joseph Grew as Ambassador to Japan. His job included promoting American business in Japan. Grew had worked on Hoover's campaign and came from a family of Boston bankers who had underwritten Russell & Company and their opium clipper ships. The Grew family associated with the Forbes, Delano and Roosevelt merchant clans.31
Joseph Grew had been a diplomat in Berlin when WWI started and oversaw Hoover's phony profit-producing food relief scheme to keep the Germans from starving and to keep the war going until America could join in the slaughter. Grew claimed that he "loved Germany and was an unrestrained champion of the German cause." But when the U.S. entered the war in April 1917, he returned home. He went on a "Liberty Bond whistle-stop sales tour speaking to 24,000 people in eleven days" where he described Germans as "licentious barbarians and international criminals."32
Hoover, Lamont and other elites promoted the idea that national economies linked together by private enterprise would stabilize the world. Private enterprise through multinational and transnational business, orchestrated financial assaults against the middle class, enslavement of the surviving poor and war - all funded or activated by the banks - is facilitating a one world, one currency tyrannical government.
^ Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave, The Yamato Dynasty: the Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family , Broadway Books, New York, 1999, pg. 149
^ Ibid, pgs. 116-134
^ The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind By The New York Times, Published by Macmillan 2004, pgs. 142-143
^ Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time , Barnes & Noble, New York, pg. 99
^ Free Energy, Tesla, Wireless Electricity by Melvin D. Saunders
^ Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave, op. cit., pgs. 116-125
^ Geoffrey Jones, The Evolution of International Business , Routledge, 1996 pgs. 238-241
^ Adventures in Cyberspace, Elisha Gray: 1835 - 1901
^ Geoffrey Jones, op. cit., pgs. 238-241
^ Ibid
^ Ibid, pgs. 167-68
^ Ibid, pgs 220-232
^ Questions About The Mother of All Bailouts by Jane Sasseen, Newsweek, September 20, 2008
^ Shi Young and James Yin, The Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs , Innovative Publishing Group, Chicago, 1997, pg. pg. 282
^ Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold , Verso Publishing, 2003, pg 50. This book was exhaustively researched and has copious documentation to support its claims.
Deanna Spingola has been a quilt designer and is the author of two books. She has traveled extensively teaching and lecturing on her unique methods. She has always been an avid reader of non-fiction works designed to educate rather than entertain. She is active in family history research and lectures on that topic. Currently she is the director of the local Family History Center. She has a great interest in politics and the direction of current government policies, particularly as they relate to the Constitution. Deanna's Web Site
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Athlete With Down Syndrome Sues For Right To Compete
by Michelle Diament | June 20, 2014
A 24-year-old with Down syndrome is suing in federal court after he was allegedly denied the opportunity to compete in the sport he loves due to his disability.
After training in mixed martial arts for more than four years, Garrett Holeve is looking to take his competition to the next level. However, the Cooper City, Fla. man says his efforts to move from exhibition matches to participating in amateur bouts have been thwarted because he has Down syndrome.
Holeve was scheduled to participate in a mixed martial arts match last August, but at the last minute the event was called off after the Florida Boxing Commission issued a cease and desist order.
Holeve is now accusing state regulators and two sanctioning organizations — which administer amateur mixed martial arts competitions — of disability discrimination.
In a lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Holeve alleges that the World Fighting Organization backed off plans to sanction his 2013 fight under pressure from state regulators.
More recently, Holeve found a new promoter who requested that the International Sport Karate Association sanction a bout later this month, but the lawsuit contends that the company declined to do so indicating that Holeve could instead compete in an exhibition match where there would be no scoring and no winner.
“Anything I want to do is my decision, this my life and my choice is to fight MMA,” Holeve said. “I have trained hard for years and deserve a regular MMA fight.”
Holeve’s case is drawing national attention. An online petition calling on regulators and sanctioning bodies to let him fight competitively has garnered more than 2,900 signatures.
“We are concerned that Garrett is being discriminated against based on his disability, in this case Down syndrome,” said Sara Hart Weir of the National Down Syndrome Society which is backing Holeve in his legal fight. “What Garrett is asking for is full inclusion and full participation in the sport of his choosing and we stand behind Garrett and his family as they fight to ensure Garrett can achieve his own hopes, dreams and aspirations.”
For their part, however, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, which includes the Florida Boxing Commission, “disagrees with the allegations,” said agency spokeswoman Tajiana Ancora-Brown.
The agency intervened in the event Holeve was scheduled to participate in solely because it was unsanctioned, she indicated.
“As a regulatory agency, we take any occurrences of unsanctioned bouts very seriously. Upon becoming aware of the unsanctioned bout, we quickly took action,” Ancora-Brown wrote in an email to Disability Scoop. “The issuance of the cease and desist notice as a result of an unsanctioned bout was not related to individual participants.”
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Government Watchdog Warns Of Group Home Dangers
by Michelle Diament | January 18, 2018
A staffer at a group home lifts a resident from her bed. A new federal report finds that change is needed to improve the health and safety of group home residents. (Tyson Trish/The Record/TNS)
Injuries, serious medical conditions and even deaths of those with developmental disabilities living in group homes often are not looked into and go unreported, federal investigators say.
An audit of three states found that officials routinely failed to follow up on incidents ranging from head lacerations to loss of life in violation of federal and state policy. The issues are believed to be systemic affecting people with developmental disabilities residing in group homes across the country.
That’s according to a joint report issued Wednesday from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, Administration on Community Living and Office for Civil Rights, which is recommending policy changes.
The report stems from a 2013 request by U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who was alarmed by newspaper reports of widespread abuse and neglect of group home residents in his state. After the inspector general’s office found serious problems in its review of Connecticut, the office conducted similar audits of Massachusetts and Maine.
In each state, investigators identified emergency room visits from group home residents, then determined if the incidents were reported to the state and, if so, what action the state took.
The inspector general’s office found that group homes often failed to report incidents to state officials. But even when states knew, up to 99 percent went unreported to law enforcement or other authorities for investigation.
“Each state was somewhat unique, but what was similar across the states was that there were gaps in policies and procedures so that when an incident occurred, they could make sure that it was identified, investigated, corrected and reported,” said Megan Tinker, senior advisor for legal review at the Office of Inspector General and an author of the report.
Aside from the three states that were audited, investigators said that recent media reports from 49 states citing health and safety problems in group homes suggest the issues are pervasive. The Office of Inspector General has additional audits underway or planned in another six states, Tinker said.
Citing the “magnitude of the danger for beneficiaries,” the Office of Inspector General worked with the Administration for Community Living and the HHS Office for Civil Rights and other federal entities to develop recommendations for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and states to address the holes in existing policies and procedures.
The report released this week is a culmination of that work and includes model practices for states to develop better oversight. In addition, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should take steps to help states address problems by forming a “SWAT” team and taking action when problems are identified in order to ensure the safety of group home residents, the recommendations indicate.
“CMS is working directly with the three states specifically examined by the OIG, and is working with department partners to distribute tools, information and any other necessary assistance to all states to ensure that quality care is being provided to all Medicaid beneficiaries,” the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said in a statement to Disability Scoop. “The suggestions found in this report are being carefully examined for further action by the agency.”
Despite the problems identified, Tinker said many group homes are great places.
“If people are looking at a group home for their loved ones, we think it’s important to spend time at the group home and to ask questions and make sure it has the right policies and procedures in place,” she said. “What do they do if something goes wrong?”
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New DROID Bionic XT875 Lands in Verizon Cellebrite, Launch Date is Completely Up in the Air at This Point
Kellen July 25, 2011 @iamkellex 143
Verizon’s Cellebrite systems have been updated to reflect the existence of the newest version of the DROID Bionic that you have all been waiting for. As you can see from the shot above, we have both the old (XT865) and new version (XT875) listed now which would lead us to believe that we’re at least getting sort of close. We’ve reported multiple times on a possible 9/1 release date, but there are still those that think we could see it by August 4. This would seemingly be a sign that 8/4 is still a strong possibility, however, I personally won’t be holding my breath.
*Note – Unless of course Moto, @MDB228 and a variety of sources are all playing one big trick on us and it will be here August 4 after all. At this point, it’s completely up in the air.
Update: To add some additional info to the post, we wanted to point out that the DROID3 popped up in Cellebrite back in May and was not released to stores until July 14. So by no means does this mean we’re just 1-2 weeks away, but is still a good sign that we’re getting there.
This is a positive development though! I’d say we’re closer than we have ever been.
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Duke Corporate Education>Insights>Strategy>How DSM is helping to feed children and empower farmers in Rwanda
How DSM is helping to feed children and empower farmers in Rwanda
September 2017 - Liz Mellon
An eye-opening meeting in Davos led DSM chief executive Feike Sijbesma to begin an ambitious, first-of-its-kind public-private partnership that is helping to combat childhood malnutrition and build local supply chains in Rwanda.
A little over 10 years ago, 47-year-old Dutchman Feike Sijbesma underwent one of the CEO rites of passage: attending his first World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. Just weeks before, his employer Royal Dutch State Mines (DSM) had announced that Sijbesma would be its next chief executive, and he was eager to learn from the illustrious gathering. DSM – once a coal-mining firm – was, at the time, predominantly a European industrial chemical company with divisions in food ingredients. But all that was about to change.
On one snowy afternoon, Sijbesma sat in on a private WEF breakout session during which African leaders criticized Western food aid shipped to their continent for the last 50 years. Western food is full calories, which keeps people alive, they acknowledged. But being largely devoid of micronutrients, it leaves people unhealthy and unable to reach their full physical and cognitive potential. It is a practice that keeps people going, they argued, but leaves them unable to meaningfully contribute to Africa’s economic growth.
Following the session, Sijbesma approached one African president who had spoken most passionately. He introduced himself, explained that DSM had a division in nutrition, and promised to help solve the issue. The response from this president was a sceptical “sure you will”, as he had heard it all before.
Undeterred, and inspired to ‘Do Something Meaningful’ (the DSM initials have been repurposed), Sijbesma approached the United Nations and the World Food Programme (WFP) to ask how DSM could help. This was well before the ‘public private partnership’ concept had become entrenched in development vernacular, so DSM was forging new and difficult ground. Yet DSM persisted and signed its first memorandum of understanding with WFP later that same year – a partnership that has now lasted a decade.
These days, DSM helps ensure that the food WFP serves in its school feeding programmes and emergency relief efforts is nutritious, fortified with essential vitamins and minerals. Not only has DSM made its nutritional scientist available to the WFP, but it has invented specific products for WFP missions, such as MixMe sachets, which can be added in-situ in schools and homes.
Over the years, DSM employees have raised millions in cash and in-kind contributions, and the firm has even seconded employees to WFP operations. During the last decade, this partnership has made it possible for tens of millions of African children to reach their full potential by ensuring that they receive not just sufficient calories, but also vital micronutrients.
Post-2007, DSM started other nutrition initiatives in Africa with affiliated organizations, such as Sight & Life, working on vitamin A intervention; Partners in Food Solutions with General Mills, Cargill, Buhler and Hershey’s; and partnerships with groups like Vitamin Angels.
Yet DSM wanted to do more. It wanted to facilitate nutritious food production in Africa, using African feedstocks produced, by Africans for Africans, to break the continuous cycle of undernutrition, foreign aid and economic stagnation.
A global stage
An opportunity came in the spring of 2013 when DSM was approached by the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) to determine if DSM was willing to take the lead in a new approach to development.
CHAI and the Government of Rwanda invited DSM to build a nutritious food plant in the Rwandan capital city of Kigali. At the time, some 38% of Rwandan under-fives suffered from severely stunted growth due to malnutrition. The Government of Rwanda was looking for solutions, and DSM was the organization they believed could deliver.
DSM first looked for strategic partners to help finance this new venture. Unfortunately, by traditional corporate financial standards, investment would not deliver the near-term financial returns that most private sector organizations require. Additionally, this venture was not without risk. While Rwanda is now politically stable, Africa historically has been a difficult place for Western organizations to operate. And, being landlocked, Rwanda presented some acute logistical and basic infrastructure challenges. DSM had to find an alternative solution.
Following a ‘road show’ to potential investors, including governmental agencies, development banks, private equity funds and NGOs, DSM reached an agreement in principle with the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, the Netherlands Development Finance Company, and the DFID Impact Acceleration Facility.
Negotiations over contractual terms on the investment took two years. Finally, in July 2015, agreements were signed in Amsterdam – and Africa Improved Foods BV (AIF) was born. Soon thereafter, Africa Improved Foods Rwanda was created, with AIF as the 91% shareholder and the Government of Rwanda as a 9% shareholder. The Government of Rwanda made in-kind contributions of land in the Kigali Special Economic Zone, Nyandungu, in return for its shares, and committed to using any profit sharing to underwrite the costs of feeding programmes in Rwanda.
Construction of the facility in Kigali finally began. It would produce nutritious porridge flour specifically for expecting and lactating mothers (Nootri Mama), as well as for children between the ages of six months and three years (Nootri Toto), using Rwandan feedstocks (such as maize and soya) manufactured to international quality standards.
The new factory
Following a year of construction challenges, the plant reached mechanical completion in December 2016. In Q1 of 2017, the first shipments of food began rolling out of the facility, and the plant continued to scale up. The total cost of construction was approximately US$60 million.
The plant has been successful in manufacturing to the highest quality and safety standards. This has required training, of not only hundreds of workers in the plant who do not have a history of working in modern manufacturing operations, but also of thousands of smallholder farmers who are being taught how to better harvest, store and transport their crops. The plant currently employs 315 Rwandans in its operations, and employed over 600 during the construction phase.
Annual capacity of the facility is 45,000 metric tonnes, making it one of the largest food manufacturing plants in East Africa. This one facility will soon have the capacity to feed nearly two million people a year – miraculous by East African standards. When operating at capacity, the plant will require 28,000 metric tonnes of maize and 11,000 metric tonnes of soya. In the 2015/2016 growing season alone AIF Rwanda sourced maize and soya from over 9,000 Rwandan smallholder farmers through nine farming cooperatives. These farmers were given access to microfinance through KBC (an African banking operation) and were provided with agronomic training by CHAI. As a consequence, farmers that were supplying AIF Rwanda saw an average yield increase of 20% in the first year of production.
Business, not charity
One of the most important aspects of this venture is the commercial operation. The venture would be impossible without the support of the WFP, which has signed a long-term deal with AIF Rwanda for a supply of super cereal for use in its own school-feeding and famine-relief efforts. Today, AIF Rwanda cereal is already helping feed those devastated by famine in Sudan, South Sudan and Somalia.
Another important commercial relationship is with the Government of Rwanda’s Ministry of Health. AIF Rwanda supplies the government with Shisha Kibondo, a fortified porridge flour that the Government of Rwanda purchases to use in its own school-feeding programmes and relief efforts, distributing it to more than 97,000 of the country’s most vulnerable children for free.
Finally, and as a key differentiator and core to the venture’s sustainability, AIF Rwanda is selling into the Rwandan and Ugandan commercial markets. Products like Nootri Mama and Nootri Toto can be found on supermarket shelves in Kigali and other cities. The product is high-quality and highly nutritious, and currently sells for about a third of the price of comparable imported products.
The profitability of this venture is critical to its sustainability. And that sustainability is critical to the African beneficiaries – the Rwandan employees and the Rwandan smallholder farmers – who rely on AIF Rwanda for safe, affordable, nutritious food, for jobs, and for a stable market for their crops. This venture is not philanthropy. It is a purpose-driven, for-profit enterprise that is replicable and scalable.
DSM estimates that by 2022, AIF Rwanda will have contributed $36 million to the Rwandan and regional economy, through spending on local feedstocks, energy and labour. No AIF Rwandan employee should ever live below the national poverty line, and currently workers earn between 28% and 38% more than they did with their previous employers.
AIF Rwanda intends to launch a ‘Made in Rwanda’ campaign that will serve as the basis for increased international demand and sales. It is estimated that AIF Rwanda will contribute between 5% and 10% to Rwanda’s export sector, securing US$ 40 million in foreign exchange for Rwanda per year.
Most importantly, the goal is to reduce childhood stunting in Rwanda – from 38% to 32% by 2020 – by exclusively using AIF Rwanda products.
AIF Rwanda is not the end. It is, as they say, the end of the beginning. DSM and its partners are in the process of finalizing negotiations with the Government of Ethiopia to build a similar facility in Addis Ababa for Ethiopian consumers and regional beneficiaries.
This model can be replicated anywhere, to create an ecosystem that ends ‘hidden hunger’, allows all children to reach their full physical and cognitive potential, and spurs economic growth through creating a manufacturing base. It also facilitates farmers to adopt better technology and practices increasing productivity, yields and profits, and helps enable social stability.
African companies, employing Africans, using African crops, to feed African people. It is the first glimmer of the end of international aid. It is also a promise kept by a young chief executive on a chilly winter afternoon in Switzerland more than ten years ago.
Liz Mellon is a world-leading business educator.
MixMe, Nootri Mama and Nootri Toto are trademarks of DSM
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Cattlemen's
If the Bay Area's delicious but snooty food is getting you down, Cattlemen's is a good antidote. Forget arugula, porcini, or truffles, because Cattlemen's is all about meat, potatoes, and cowboys. The restaurant, which looks like the inside of a barn-cum-lodge, is decorated with the stuffed heads of buffalo, wildcats, and other Western animals. Throughout the restaurant and bar, there are wagons, saddles, and branding plaques from local farmers and ranchers, which all give the place the feel of a lodge in Montana. Before dinner, head to the bar and sit by the big stone fireplace. It's a perfect place to sip a cold beer or nurse a drink, especially on cold, rainy evenings. Because weekend nights get very crowded at Cattlemen's, the best time to come is midweek. The menu is simple and almost entirely devoted to meat. There's sizzling prime rib, sirloin, 24-ounce T-bone steaks, and tender filets mignons. Cattlemen's meat is delivered weekly from Harris Ranch, then aged on the premises and cut by the restaurant's own butcher. All the beef is served with salad, baked potatoes, hot sourdough bread, and ranch-style beans. If fat and cholesterol aren't too much of a worry, try the two-pound porterhouse steak, which is served smothered in Cattlemen's "tumbleweed onions" battered and then fried to a perfect crunch. After dinner, don't miss the homemade cobblers: three-berry or apple-peach. Now that protein is back and carbs are out, the lines at Cattlemen's are bound to get longer.
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In the US, fire suppression policy directed at putting out all fires as rapidly as possible has been practiced for much of the twentieth century. The effectiveness of fire suppression has varied temporally and spatially with relatively ineffective suppression early in the twentieth century but increasingly more effective later on. Fire suppression was immediately effective in areas of ready access, where fires could be discovered early and resources deployed quickly to extinguish them. In more remote areas, suppression policies did not have much impact on fire behavior until development of the fire lookout system in the 1930s facilitated early fire detection and the smoke jumping program in the 1940s facilitated access. Thus, in many remote locations fire suppression policies have significantly altered fire regimes only in the latter half of the twentieth century.
The extent to which fire suppression policy has affected ecosystems is linked to fire regime. Many coniferous forests historically exposed to frequent fires have had fire excluded for a century or more. This is well demonstrated by fire histories from fire-scarred trees (Figure 3) in southwestern ponderosa pine, where fire-scar records indicate frequent fires until the late nineteenth century, and then a cessation of burning throughout the twentieth century. Much of this is due to the unique conditions of these fire regimes. Fires typically burn surface fuels with short flame lengths that pose little threat to fire fighters. Also, throughout much of the Southwest fires are still largely ignited by lightning and under weather conditions particularly conducive to rapid suppression.
The effect of fire suppression has changed over time. Throughout the twentieth century the impact was to exclude fire. However, as more and more natural fire cycles were missed, forests have increased in tree density, and many of the saplings have remained suppressed in the understory. This has the unwanted effect of producing ladder fuels capable of carrying surface fires into the canopies of the dominant trees and converting surface fire regimes into crown fire regimes.
In contrast, southern California chaparral landscapes have not had fire excluded over most of the twentieth century. Despite the fact that these landscapes were managed by the same fire-suppression policy, and heroic efforts have been directed at trying to suppress fires, the ferocity of these crown fires, particularly when driven by the autumn foehn winds, has made total fire exclusion impossible. This, however, is not to say fire-suppression policy has had no impact on these landscapes. Quite the contrary, this landscape has had more than a century of an anthropogenic fire regime driven by human ignited fires. Without fire-suppression activities these landscapes likely would have had fire frequencies grossly in excess of natural and sustainable levels. On an average fire suppression has managed to maintain this landscape within the historical range of fire frequency, although many localized areas have been hammered with fire to such an extent that they have lost most of all of their native biota and been replaced by non-native grasses and forbs.
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PBS Kids releases baby's first HDMI dongle
Junior can now watch 'Bob the Builder' without any ads or inappropriate content.
Nicole Lee, @nicole
05.10.17 in AV
Nicole Lee / Engadget
With the recent arrival of YouTube TV and Hulu Live, it's clear that cord-cutting is here to stay. Not only is content readily available without a cable subscription, you can watch it on your big screen TV thanks to the proliferation of streaming set-top boxes and HDMI sticks. Yet, these devices are meant for a general audience; there aren't really any streaming sticks with specialized content. Until now. PBS has just released something called PBS Kids Plug & Play, which is apparently the first streaming stick for kids. Bonus: It even looks like a toy car.
Indeed, with its four wheels and the racing stripe down the middle, you'd be forgiven for initially thinking this was just a Hot Wheels ripoff. But if you look at the car's rear, you'll see the telltale dongle that fits neatly in any HDMI port. PBS wisely included an HDMI extension cord as well, just in case your TV's ports are too shallow to accommodate the irregular-size Plug & Play. Just like other streaming sticks on the market, you'll also need to hook it up to a USB power source, be it from the TV or an AC adapter. The stick has 1GB of memory, 16GB of flash storage and a microSD card slot.
Gallery: PBS Kids Plug n Play interface | 20 Photos
As for ease of use, well, the name describes it pretty accurately. Plug it in, and it comes alive, instantly pairing to the accompanying remote control via Bluetooth. The remote control is green, curved and sized perfectly for small hands. On the front are four direction keys, a center star button, plus a circular "PBS Kids" button that acts as a catch-all home or back key. Once connected, you'll immediately see the bright green PBS Kids home interface on your TV. There's no need to sign up for anything, and there are no ads. The Plug & Play has a super simple UI, with a circular navigation menu in the center and a settings shortcut at the top right.
As you might expect, you can use the Plug & Play to watch PBS Kids programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as long as the stick is connected to WiFi; simply navigate over to the Videos section. At this point, you're probably wondering why you would need a specialized PBS Kids stick in order to do this. After all, you can already watch PBS Kids content on the Roku or online via your computer.
The key with the PBS Kids Plug & Play stick is that it offers way more than just streaming episodes of Clifford the Big Red Dog or Thomas & Friends. It also has games and exclusive content. What's more, you can access it without an internet connection. An added benefit of the stick is that the content is in a closed environment, so you can rest assured that your child won't encounter any inappropriate videos while you're not looking.
That exclusive content includes 50 sing-a-long songs, on-demand episodes of your kids' favorite shows, Words of the Week, an interactive sound box where you can play around with different instruments and a "Rail Riders" game -- where you're collecting different items on a railroad track. There's also a "Road Trip Adventure" board game, in which you move across a predetermined route by spinning a wheel, performing silly tasks and actions along the way (examples include buzzing like a bee or waddling like a duck). Last but not least is a series of interactive "scenes," where you can press the center star button to do things like launch fireworks or boost submarines.
"We know families are busy and on-the-go, and value spending time together whenever they can," said Dawn Ciccone, vice president of brand licensing at PBS, in a statement. "We have also learned from research that when parents are engaged with their children in activities related to their favorite TV shows or games, children learn more." She goes on to say that the Plug & Play turns any TV into an "interactive and fun learning resource."
Yet the value of a streaming stick as niche as the PBS Kids Plug & Play is unclear. Sure, you get all of that extra content, but you could probably get much of the same from existing apps and websites. And, as we said earlier, if all you want to do is watch PBS Kids content, you can already do so without the stick at all. What's more, the Plug & Play is only $50, which is about the same price as Roku's streaming stick, even though it's nowhere near as versatile.
But perhaps there's something else at play here. PBS is certainly not the only outfit to wrap kids' programming in a cord-cutter package. YouTube, for example, has recently rolled out a special Kids app for smart TVs. It's even created four completely original shows just for its YouTube Kids service. Other streaming services have child-friendly programming too; Netflix offers a kids-only profile, as does Hulu. Another on-demand offering for kids is Sprout Online, which is essentially the online component of NBC's children's programming. Disney and Nickelodeon are still pretty tied to traditional TV -- you can't watch their live programming without a cable or satellite subscription, for example -- but you can watch certain full on-demand episodes on their respective websites.
It's clear that as cord-cutting increases, even specialty categories have to follow the footsteps of HBO and Showtime in offering a la carte programming. Media companies know all too well that young parents are now sitting their children in front of iPads and computers, thus raising a new generation of kids who aren't beholden to the whims of traditional TV. Now, it appears that YouTube and PBS are savvy enough to not only cater to this audience but to provide exclusive content that's not dependent on TV at all.
In this light, the PBS Plug & Play is a shrewd move. It tells the child, hey, this is your own little version of Mommy and Daddy's Roku. This is your TV, catered for you. It tells the kids that they can watch what they want, when they want, on their own terms. Whether we like it or not, it seems children's eyeballs are the next untapped market for the media companies. As long as Mommy and Daddy pay for it, that is.
In this article: applenews, av, entertainment, gear, hands-on, pbs, pbskids
By Nicole Lee @nicole
Raised in the tropics of Malaysia, Nicole arrived in the United States in search of love, happiness and ubiquitous broadband. That last one is still a dream, but two out of three isn't bad. Her love for words and technology reached a fever pitch in San Francisco, where she learned you could make a living writing about gadgets, video games and the internet. Truly, a dream come true. Other interests include baseball, coffee, cooking and chasing after her precocious little cat.
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Iraqi Leaders Meet Foreign Counterparts; Further Progress on KRG Formation – On May 3, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi met with French President Emmanuel Macron. On May 4, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi spoke on the phone with United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss strengthening relations between Iraq and the United States. On May 5, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) agreed on a deal over the division of ministerial positions of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). On May 7, Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Qubad Talabani met with a delegation of the International Assistance Department in the French Ministry of Finance in Erbil. On May 7, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Baghdad on an unannounced visit. Pompeo briefed reporters on the talks, saying that he informed Iraqi officials about “the increased threat stream that we had seen [from Iran] and give them a little bit more background on that so they could ensure that they were doing all they could to provide protection†for U.S. forces stationed in Iraq. On April 10, Sumaria News reported, based on senior Iraqi sources, that Secretary Pompeo warned his Iraqi interlocutors about Iranian plans to strike military bases in which American forces are stationed, the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and an American oil company operating in southern Iraq. On May 8, in another step facilitating the formation of a new government, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) parliament re-established the position of president in the KRG. On May 8, member of the Political Bureau and official of the Public Relations Office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Saadi Ahmed Pira met with a delegation from the United States Embassy in Baghdad and the United States Consulate in Erbil. more…
IED, Shooting Attacks and Assassinations Continue Across Iraq; U.S. Warns Iraq Against Transferring U.S. Arms to PMU – On May 4, two IEDs exploded, one after the other, in the village of Mukhaysa, in northern Diyala Province, killing one young man and injuring three people. On May 6, the pan-Arab daily al-Araby al-Jadeed reported, based on anonymous Iraqi officials that American officials are demanding that Iraq ensure that all weapons provided by the U.S. to Iraqi will remain solely in the hands of Iraqi Security Forces and do no reach certain militias operating under the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) that are linked to Iran. On May 7, militants launched an attack on a federal police checkpoint known as Altun Kupri along the Erbil-Kirkuk road near Kalwor village, killing three. On May 7, armed men opened fire on a residential building in the town of Mazarie in Salah al-Deen Province, killing three civilians and injuring four. On May 6 and 7, Turkish jets struck targets linked to the Kurdish guerilla group, the PKK, in Kurazhar mountain, in the Amdei District of Dohuk Province, northwestern Iraqi Kurdistan. On May 8, Sumaria News reported that 810 foreign fighters belonging to ISIS have gone through interrogations and judicial proceedings in Iraq since the start of 2018. On May 8, a statement issued on behalf of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) announced that sweeps in recent months resulted in the closure of over 320 “fake PMU†offices across Iraq. On May 9, the Security Media Cell announced that “terrorists†attacked the home of the mukhtar (elder leader) of the village of al-Lazaka in the Hamam al-Alil area of Ninewa Province, resulting in the death of the mukhtar and four of his relatives. more…
Several Regions Affected by Flooding; More Abducted Yazidis Return from Syria; HRW Warns about Proposal for Mass Internment of Families Perceived to be Linked to ISIS – On May 4, a parliamentary member from Basra Faleh al-Khazali stated that 40,000 acres of land has been destroyed by the heavy rainfall and flooding occurring in the region. On May 5, the United Nations office in Iraq reported that over 100,000 children and their families in Maysan province do not have clean water or sanitation due to the recent flooding. Additionally, 20,000 people have been displaced on account of the flooding. On May 6, 27 more Yazidi women and children abducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in 2014 returned to their town of Khanasor in Sinjar, after being rescued by the Syrian Democratic Forces. On May 7, Human Rights Watch (HRW) disclosed that Iraqi government received a proposal for a plan to create multiple closed towns, in essence internment camps, for families with perceived affiliations with ISIS. more…
For more background on most of the institutions, key actors, political parties, and locations mentioned in our takeaways or in the stories that follow, see the ISHM Reference Guide.
Iraqi Leaders Meet Foreign Counterparts; Further Progress on KRG Formation
On May 3, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi met with French President Emmanuel Macron. The two leaders discussed the involvement of French companies in Iraq to reconstruct areas affected by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in sectors such as transport, energy, agriculture, water, and urban management. Overall, Macron stated that €1 billion will be invested into Iraq through these projects. Security was another topic of discussion as Abdul-Mahdi acknowledged the existence of sleeper cells of ISIS. The two leaders discussed the possibility of dispatching French military trainers to Iraq.
On May 4, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi spoke on the phone with United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss strengthening relations between Iraq and the United States. Economic ties were discussed as well as an agreement with United States-based company ExxonMobil to work within Iraq. Pompeo stated that the United States supports Iraq’s goal of becoming a leader of the region.
On May 5, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) agreed on a deal over the division of ministerial positions of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The completion of the cabinet is an important step towards the formation of the KRG, since disagreements on this matter have hindered the government formation for over 200 days.
On May 6, Iraq Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced that Iraq is expected to sign a $53 billion energy contract with ExxonMobil and PetroChina. Abdul-Mahdi stated that Iraq could make up to $400 billion from the agreement in the next 30 years. The main focus will be on increasing oil and natural gas production of the Nahr Umr and Artawi oilfields.
On May 7, Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Qubad Talabani met with a delegation of the International Assistance Department in the French Ministry of Finance in Erbil. The French delegation will help to draft a budget for the KRG as well as monitor is expenditures. French specialists will arrive in the KRI in two months to help the KRG train government employees and develop its agricultural and tourism sectors.
On May 7, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Baghdad on an unannounced visit. Pompeo met with Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, Iraqi President Barham Salih, and other top officials to discuss United States sanctions and tensions with Iran and the security of Americans in Iraq. Abdul-Mahdi stressed that he will be putting Iraq’s interests first and that Iraq is attempting to build positive relationships with many nations, including Iran. Pompeo briefed reporters on the talks, saying that he informed Iraqi officials  about “the increased threat stream that we had seen [from Iran] and give them a little bit more background on that so they could ensure that they were doing all they could to provide protection†for U.S. forces stationed in Iraq. On April 10, Sumaria News reported, based on senior Iraqi sources, that Secretary Pompeo warned his Iraqi interlocutors about Iranian plans to strike military bases in which American forces are stationed, the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and an American oil company operating in southern Iraq.
On May 8, in another step facilitating the formation of a new government, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) parliament re-established the position of president in the KRG. The last president the KRG had as Masoud Barzani in November of 2017. Since, the responsibilities of the president have been divided between the prime minister, speaker of the parliament, and the regional judiciary. With this new bill, the president will be able to decide what roles his deputies will take in the new government. The bill also stipulated that the president will be elected by the parliament, will have two deputies instead of one, and will be able to continue to do work for their political party. One of the future president’s deputies will be from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the other from Gorran, as per the agreements reached between the three parties that facilitated the formation of the government.
On May 8, member of the Political Bureau and official of the Public Relations Office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Saadi Ahmed Pira met with a delegation from the United States Embassy in Baghdad and the United States Consulate in Erbil. The leaders discussed the relationship between Federal Iraq and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) as well as how to facilitate the formation of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
IED, Shooting Attacks and Assassinations Continue Across Iraq; U.S. Warns Iraq Against Transferring U.S. Arms to PMU
On May 4, a motorcycle-borne IED exploded in near a popular fast-food restaurant in northern Mosul city, injuring three civilians. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack and Iraqi social media users alleged that the person who left behind the IED is a member of the Hashd al-Shaabi militia, but a local commander with the force disputed the allegation. Following the explosion, authorities throughout the province announced a ban on movement of motorcycles, and those violating are to be detained and fined.
On May 4, two IEDs exploded, one after the other, in the village of Mukhaysa, in northern Diyala Province, killing one young man and injuring three people, including the young man’s father. The frequent attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in the town and clashes with pro-government militias have displaced many of the village’s residents in recent years.
On May 5, an IED exploded in Miqdadiya, a city 80 kilometers northeast of Baghdad in Diyala Province, in front of the home of an official in the education directorate of Diyala Province. The explosion caused only material damage.
On May 6, the pan-Arab daily al-Araby al-Jadeed reported, based on anonymous Iraqi officials that American officials are demanding that Iraq ensure that all weapons provided by the U.S. to Iraqi will remain solely in the hands of Iraqi Security Forces and do no reach certain militias operating under the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) that are linked to Iran. According to Iraqi officials, the U.S. is upset that Iranian-linked units are using light weapons, such as M-16 and M-4 rifles, originally provided by the U.S. to the Iraqi Army. American officials stated that the leakage of such weapons to the PMUs will endanger the its armament program of elite units such as the Counter-Terrorism Forces.
On May 6, the Defense Post reported that Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) alongside pro-regime militias operating in Syria, were sweeping the Iraq-Syria border in search for ISIS cells. ÙPro-Iranian Iraqi militias, such as Kataeb Imam Ali, are participating in the sweeps on the Syrian side of the border, where they operate alongside Syrian regime forces.
On May 6, an IED exploded against a car with Iraqi policemen, injuring one of them, when they were driving between Baquba and Kan’aan in Diyala Province. The officer was taken to a hospital. Authorities suspect ISIS was responsible for the attack.
On May 7, militants fired on a federal police checkpoint known as Altun Kupri along the Erbil-Kirkuk road near Kalwor village. Three federal policemen were killed in the attack and a fourth member of the force was injured. Following the attack, the Iraqi Army and federal police launched raids in the area and arrested two suspected ISIS militants. Residents of Kalwor were ordered  by Iraqi security forces to remain indoors following the attack.
On May 7, the Iraqi Army announced that it will receive four new South Korean KAI T-50 Golden Eagle advanced trainers and light combat aircrafts by the end of May. This is the third batch of aircraft supplied by South Korea under the deal, totalling in 24 KAI T-50 trainer jets inked in 2013.
On May 7, armed men opened fire on a residential building in the town of Mazarie in Salah al-Deen Province, killing three civilians and injuring four. According to the Security Media Cell, an official governmental body, the shooting was a terrorist attack.
On May 6 and 7, Turkish jets struck targets linked to the Kurdish guerilla group, the PKK, in Kurazhar mountain, in the Amdei District of Dohuk Province, northwestern Iraqi Kurdistan. According to NRT, a Kurdish news outlet “Turkey has recently increased the frequency of it strikes on targets in the Kurdistan Region with at least seven strikes in a little more than a week.â€
On May 8, Sumaria News reported that 810 foreign fighters belonging to ISIS have gone through interrogations and judicial proceedings in Iraq since the start of 2018. According to statistics of the Iraqi Supreme Court, 514 of the detainees have already been sentenced, 202 are still being interrogated, 44 are still undergoing trial and 11 were released after being found not guilty.
On May 8, an roadside IED exploded against a patrol of the Popular Mobilization Units militia, Liwaa’ I’maa’ al-Baqi’, injuring two of the fighters, as they were traveling east of Miqdadiya in Diyala Province. Following the attack, Iraqi security forces began searching for ISIS cells in the area.
On May 8, a statement issued on behalf of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) announced that sweeps in recent months resulted in the closure of over 320 “fake PMU†offices across Iraq. The closure of offices comes as part of an effort to consolidate and centralize control of the PMUs and appear to address with some of the corruption and abuses perpetrated by the PMU.
On May 9, the Security Media Cell announced that “terrorists†attacked the home of the mukhtar (elder leader) of the village of al-Lazaka in the Hamam al-Alil area of Ninewa Province, resulting in the death of the Mukhtar, Mjabil Mankhi, and four of his relatives. In recent years, ISIS has assassinated multiple mukhtars across Iraq.
Several Regions Affected by Flooding; More Abducted Yazidis Return from Syria; HRW Warns about Proposal for Mass Internment of Families Perceived to be Linked to ISIS
On May 4, a parliamentary member from Basra Faleh al-Khazali stated that 40,000 acres of land has been destroyed by the heavy rainfall and flooding occurring in the region. Khazali has collected 50 signatures of members of the Basra Council of Ministers to call on the federal government to compensate farmers that have been affected by this extreme weather.
On May 5, the United Nations office in Iraq reported that over 100,000 children and their families in Maysan province do not have clean water or sanitation due to the recent flooding. Additionally, 20,000 people have been displaced on account of the flooding. Many of those affected have begun to use the flood water for their basic needs, causing serious health risks. The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Representative in Iraq Hamida Lasseko stated that they are working to provide buckets, hygiene kits, and prefabricated toilets to those in need.
On May 6, 27 more Yazidi women and children abducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in 2014 returned to their town of Khanasor in Sinjar, after being rescued by the Syrian Democratic Forces. These Yazidis had been living in refugee camps in northeastern Syria prior to their return.
On May 7, Human Rights Watch (HRW) disclosed that Iraqi government received a proposal for a  plan to create multiple closed towns, in essence internment camps, for families with perceived affiliations with the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Those placed in the camps will not undergo a trial and are not officially charged with any crime. The plan would place all spouses, children, siblings, and parents of alleged ISIS members into this camp, as well as second-degree relatives of ISIS members, totalling in up to 280,000 people. Human Rights Watch also asserted that the detention camp would also violate the Iraqi Constitution, which guarantees Iraqis freedom of movement, travel, and residence.
IED Incidents and Resulting Casualties
Casualties Due To IEDs May 30, 2019 - June 6, 2019
The following table includes both civilian and security forces who were either injured or killed due to improvised explosive devices (IEDs), vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs), or suicide attacks.
06/05/19 Baquba, Diyala region 0 0
06/05/19 Dibis, northwest of Kirkuk 2 3
06/05/19 al-Jinazi, northeast of Baquba 0 1
06/05/19 Sinjar, south of Nineveh 0 2
06/05/19 al-Madham, west of Haditha 2 1
06/04/19 Nahrawan, southeast of Baghdad 0 0
06/03/19 Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad 0 0
06/03/19 Kokli, Mosul 0 0
05/30/19 Kirkuk 3 37
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Anglican Communion’s ‘hidden treasure’ archives to be restored
Posted Jun 1, 2016
Stephanie Taylor, information and knowledge manager at the Anglican Communion Office Photo: Anglican Communion News Service
[Anglican Communion News Service] Archive treasures from the start of the Anglican Communion Office (ACO) back in 1968 are to be restored and developed to help build and inform the future of the Communion and its mission.
The archive records of the ACO and the Instruments of Communion, includes details of the 1968 Lambeth Conference from the inception of the Anglican Consultative Council. Other papers relate to provincial correspondence; ecumenical reports, records including collections on mission, women’s ordination, marriage and the family, conflict, refugees and migration, AIDS, and the United Nations.
ACO Information and Knowledge Manager Stephanie Taylor, said, “I am passionate about the potential of information sharing to facilitate connection, collaboration, and learning. In order for this to happen, we need to tell our stories.
“For some, archives may be seen as dusty old repositories of box upon box, file upon file, of old papers; something to be forgotten about, or worse, thrown away, but archives are so much more than a set of dusty old papers.”
She said, “Archives tell the story of who we are, why we are here and what we want to achieve. They are crucial to our sense of identity and a huge strategic resource for mission, outreach and renewal. The Rev. David M. Howard, author and retired Christian missionary, said: ‘It is this combination of historical perspective with contemporary needs that will greatly strengthen the ministry of any mission. And the archives of the mission can thus be seen as indispensable to the present and future vision and direction of the mission.’”
Taylor believes archives are not just historical records but hold collective “corporate memory” and are a living resource; a source of knowledge to be utilized, moving forward, for mission.
She said, “These archives are the Communion’s story and the records and documents within them are treasures that the Revd. Dr Jesse Zink, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, argues can help to shape and form the understanding of how history speaks to our present world. I recently had the pleasure and privilege of serving at ACC-16 in Lusaka, Zambia. In his sermon at the opening service, the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke of the importance of telling our stories. He said:
“The higher a tree grows, the more likely it is to need deep roots. When the storms come, only the roots make a difference. The older a society or nation becomes, the more it needs to tell its story; so that in each generation we renew the sense of who we are and why we are here now.”
Tim Powell, senior advisor for religious archives at the National Archives has also stressed the historical and theological value of the archives. He wrote:
“They will be one of the most important sources for understanding the development of Anglicanism – and Christianity generally – worldwide from the later twentieth century. They will be particularly important for understanding theological developments in the Church and ecumenical relationships.”
Taylor added: “I am reminded of, Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the Looking Glass’, in which he writes: ‘It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.’ In other words we remember to move forwards. We need to tell our story to learn from the past and to shape our future.
“I am delighted to say that the Standing Committee resolved to adopt objectives for the management of the Anglican Communion archives. In committing to developing an archive at the ACO, in stewardship on behalf of the Communion, the ACC Standing Committee has made an enormous gift – the treasure hidden in clay jars will one day be hidden no more, it can be used, in the words of Archbishop Welby, in our mission of setting lights shining in every community.”
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Back in the Day: Erie's Circus History
Erie County: The First Home of the American Circus
by Barry Casselman
Unless you grew up in Girard, you probably don't know that Erie County was where the first American circus made its winter home.
Before there was Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey, there was Dan Rice. Rice created the touring American circus and was the premier showman of his time. In 1853, he moved to Girard in western Erie County, and established this site as his winter quarters for his new circus troupe.
Rice was one of the most colorful characters and most famous Americans of the then young republic. His circus was called "the greatest show on earth" well before Ringling Brothers pitched their first tent, and he is now called "the most famous man you never knew." Rice is even considered one of the models for Uncle Sam, often dressing up as the character who's the personification of America for two centuries. But Rice was not only a pioneer showman. He was also a professional clown (one of the nation's first), an actor, a director and producer, a songwriter, and even a presidential candidate.
It's worth noting that another super-prominent American of that era, and the country's most famous early journalist, Horace Greeley, also lived in Erie (about 20 years before Rice arrived in Girard).
Girard in 1853 was a very small town, more or less as it is now, located near the Erie Extension Canal that went from Pittsburgh to Erie. (Much less well-known than the Erie Canal that went from Albany to Buffalo, the Erie Extension Canal enabled direct shipping from New Orleans via the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to reach the Great Lakes.).
Something about Girard attracted Rice. An article in Bandwagon, the circus magazine, suggests that Agrippa Martin, who had grown up in Girard and had become the foremost animal trainer of his day, persuaded Rice to settle there. Soon after arriving, Rice built a huge house near the public square and established winter quarters in the town for his famed circus. Girard quickly became the headquarters of most of the other major American circuses, including Thayer & Noyes; Rice & Forepaugh; G.R. Spaulding & Co.; Anderson & Co.; Warner, Springer and Henderson; and others, and Erie County became the center of the 19th-century U.S. circus world. Barns housing elephants and other circus animal were built – Martin himself became famous as the man who trained the legendary circus elephant Hannibal.
Martin and many 19th century circus figures are buried in Girard, but Rice's mansion and most of the other 19th century circus buildings have been razed.
Except for a U.S. Civil War statue (the first one in the U.S., erected in 1863), one barn, and "Dan Rice Days," the annual Girard summer festival, there are few physical remaining reminders of Girard's circus glory days and its most famous resident.
In the age before radio, TV and the movies, Rice was one of America's first "pop culture" mega-celebrities. In addition to inventing the modern circus, he is also credited by some as one of the originators of vaudeville – before it was known by that name – by putting together programs of "novelty acts" on 19th century stages, one of which was Erie's Park Theater on North Park Row. In 1868, Rice even ran for president.
Not only has this giant figure of the 19th century been largely forgotten in the 21st century, most traces of the Erie Extension Canal, which brought him to Erie County, are gone, as is the outlandish mansion where he lived. But the circus continues, as do the offspring of Rice's novelty acts (in the form of stand-up comedy and theater musicals). Rice's friend and fellow early resident of Erie, Horace Greeley, was a major pioneer of American media, and is equally forgotten.
There was a time in Erie's history when so much in today's American culture germinated here. That should not be forgotten.
Barry Casselman, an Erie native, now lives in Minneapolis. He has been a national political commentator for many years, as well as a widely published author of poetry and short fiction.
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PA DEP has moved to shut down Erie Coke, bringing the fight for Erie's equitable future into focus
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Hwang Seung-eon
OctoberOct 31, 1988
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She earned a degree in theatre and film from Kyung Hee University before making her acting debut in the 2009 film A Blood Pledge.
In 2015, she was nominated for a Wildflower Film Award for Best New Actress for the film The King of Jokgu.
She was born in Yeonhui-dong, Seodaemun District, Seoul.
In 2017, she was cast alongside Jo In-sung and Kim Ah-joong in the film The King.
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She graduated from Hunter College with a degree in Psychology.
She developed an app called Tycoon that is meant to help freelancers track their income/payments for paid and unpaid jobs.
She was born in San Jose, Costa Rica and has lived in Honduras and Ecuador. Her mother did not know she was pregnant with her until she was four months into the pregnancy. Her older sister is just 11 months her senior.
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Morning intel: Snap preps its IPO campaign, Amazon outspent physical retailers on TV ads
By J.J. McCorvey 1 minute Read
• Snap Inc. is honing its pitch for an initial public offering next year, but it might not be an easy sell. The company is expected to promote its plans to become a content powerhouse, the Wall Street Journal reports. But according to investors, it could be a long shot: Snap hopes to reach a valuation upwards of $25 billion, which is nearly 27 times the amount of ad revenue it will generate next year. That’s a multiple of market cap to ad revenue greater than both Facebook‘s and Twitter‘s.
• China’s solution to a soft box office? Delete negative reviews. After another round of high-profile Chinese films fell short of expectations, the state-sponsored publication People’s Daily posted an editorial blaming “vicious and irresponsible reviews,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. In response, one of the singled-out sites, Maoyan, deleted professional reviews from its home page, leaving only glowing, user-generated feedback on failed movies like the big-budget (and controversial) Matt Damon-helmed The Great Wall.
• Autonomous braking may have prevented the Berlin attacker from claiming more lives. In a seemingly rare bit of positive data concerning safety and autonomous-driving features, investigators of the Berlin terrorist attack that killed 12 people earlier this month have found that the assailant’s truck stopped some 300 feet after it sensed a collision, German media reports. In 2012, the European Union set guidelines establishing such braking features for vehicles.
• Amazon outspent its brick-and-mortar competitors on holiday TV ads this year. Recode reports that in October and November, the e-commerce giant spent around $135 million on TV spots, more than both Walmart and Target. (Compare that to five years ago, when Amazon spent $156 million on all forms of advertising over an entire year.)
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Coyotes by Conover
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Illegal Immigration as Seen Through the Eyes of Ted Author Conover
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Illegal Immigration in the Bahamas
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Export and Transport in Costa Rica
In fourteen pages Costa Rica's exporting and importing of bananas and the problems they have caused throughout the country's history are analyzed. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography.
Economic and Political Issues in Costa Rica and The United States
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Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil and His Reign
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The Status of Human Rights in Brazil
The writer analyzes the status of human rights in Brazil and the changes since the 1996 passage of a human rights act. The writer concludes that although there have been some reforms, there are still many human rights violations. The paper is five pages long and there are six sources listed in the bibliography.
Cuban Refugees and U.S. Policy on Immigration
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In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
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Favelas Housing and the Political, Social, and Economic Situation in Brazil
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The Iranian and Guatemalan Revolutions
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Win Some, Lose Some: Views of the Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs fiasco of April 1961 is viewed from U.S. and Cuban perspectives in 8 pages. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
Chile During Pjnochet
A 3 page paper which examines Chile during Pinochet’s rule. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Economic Outlook of Chile
In five pages the economy of Chile is discussed and its future outlook is also considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
The Concept of Freedom in the Hispanic Culture
A 3 page discussion of the Hispanic quest for freedom. This paper defines the Hispanic culture as a broadly encompassing culture and one that has repeatedly sought freedom both from outside imperialistic powers and from inside dictatorial powers. Examples from Chile are emphasized. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) During Recent History
This paper provides a historical analysis of FDI policy and its effects on native populations of various Latin American countries. The author also addresses cultural injustices and how they relate to FDI issues. This five page paper has no bibliography.
Mexican Culture and Chicana Feminism
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Illegal Immigration and the Cuban Issue
American immigration policy as it pertains to Cuba has been a sea of contradictions, especially when compared to the policy on Haiti. This paper examines the problems with Cuban immigration and compares it to immigration as a whole. Cites financial, social and historic aspects. This paper has thirty pages and fourteen sources are listed in the bibliography.
Gary Jennings/Aztec
A 6 page book review and essay that consists of 2 parts, each 3 pages in length. The first half of the paper offers a synopsis of the novel Aztec by Gary Jennings. The write covers the structure and main topics of the novel, describing how it informs the reader about Aztec culture. The second part of the paper then compares Aztec culture to the modern world, pointing out similarities and differences. No additional sources cited.
Jennings/Aztec/Summation of Latter Half
A 6 page research paper in which the first half of the paper (3 pages) offers a summation of Gary Jennings' novel Aztec covering the latter half of the novel. The next 3 pages offer a discussion concerning Aztec religious rituals. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Incas and Aztecs
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Costa Rican Banana and Coffee Production
In five pages the significance of the production of bananas and coffee to the economy of Costa Rica is examined. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
Solving the Problems of Poverty in Brazil
The writer considers ways in which the economic inequality in Brazil may be addressed. The writer argues that applying economic theories such as the trickle down effect may help Brazil solve its difficulties. The paper is five pages long and there are eight sources listed in the bibliography.
Brazil's Urban Life
Emilia Viotti da Costa's The Myth of Racial Democracy in Brazil: A Problem of Social Mythology is referenced in this consideration of Brazil's urban lifestyle in a paper consisting of five pages. There are no other sources listed.
The Unfair Treatment of Brazilian Indians
The centenary celebrations in 2000 for the 500th anniversary of the Portuguese landing in Brazil may have been a cause for celebration for the majority of Brazilian people, but for the indigenous population the celebration has been referred to an inappropriate and insensitive. The paper looks at the history of the Indigenous people, discussing why the centenary was not welcomed by all. Twenty-two sources are cited in the bibliography of this twenty-three page paper.
Cook and Cook's Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance and Family Relationships
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Negron-Muntaner/Barbie's Hair
A 3 page paper that discusses this essay. A doll seems like an unlikely candidate for controversy. Yet, yet Frances Negron-Muntaner, in her essay "Barbie's Hair," describes how controversy immediately arose when the Mattel Toy Company released a Puerto Rican version of their famous Barbie doll in 1997. Communities, both in Puerto Rico and the mainland US, associated the doll with cultural connotations that involved "Puerto Rican identity" (Negron-Muntaner 39). The author of this provocative essay makes a number of pertinent points about this version of Barbie within the context of popular culture, however, two of the most intriguing points made in the essay are the significance that was attached to the meaning of the doll's hair and how this related to Puerto Rican identity and also how the doll represented a political position in terms of Puerto Rico's place on the world stage. No additional sources cited.
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A 5 page research paper/essay that critiques how each man viewed Emiliano Zapata. The Labyrinth of Solitude is one of the most famous works by the noted Mexican author Octavio Paz. It is a collection of nine essays that are all concerned with the central theme of how one should understand Mexican identity, which translates in the book into understanding the quest for this understanding as an existential labyrinth, which leads inevitably to a profound feeling of solitude. Diego Rivera, through his art, also expresses a vision of Mexican identity. This discussion interprets Rivera's "Agrarian Leader Zapata" in light of the themes brought out in Paz's text. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Demetria Martinez Speaks the Mother Tongue
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David Elder
SeptemberSep 22, 1975
SeptemberSep 22, 1975 (age 43)
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Former major league pitcher who played for the Cleveland Indians in 2002 and 2003.
He was selected by the Texas Rangers in the fourth round of the 1997 MLB Draft.
He was traded to the Cleveland Indians in 2001 for controversial lefty relief pitcher John Rocker.
He was raised in Georgia by his parents and later moved back to his home state after his baseball career was over.
He gave up Rafael Palmero's 500th career home run in 2003.
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'Star Wars' Adds 2 Newcomers To 'Episode VII'
By Zach Seemayer 3:06 PM PDT, July 6, 2014
Two fresh faces are flying off to that far, far away galaxy as Star Wars: Episode VII has tapped new actors to flesh out its cast, according to Variety.
Actress Crystal Clarke, a U.K. performer whose debut film The Moon And The Sun is set to be released in 2015, and British actor Pip Andersen, best known for his parkour skills, have been hired by the production in unspecified roles.
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In a press statement, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said, "The Star Wars universe has always been about discovering and nurturing young talent and in casting Episode VII we wanted to remain absolutely faithful to this tradition. We are delighted that so many traveled to see us at the open casting calls and that we have been able to make Crystal and Pip a part of the film."
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In 1977, when the original Star Wars film was released, it was Mark Hamill's feature film debut, as well as one of the first leading roles for Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher. So casting unknowns for this particular series is, indeed, tradition.
Principle photography for Episode VII is currently underway at Pinewood Studios in London and is helmed by Star Trek rebooter J.J. Abrams. The film is currently slated for a December 18, 2015 release.
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As promised, here is Pip Andersen free-running around the rooftops of England in a Spidey suit:
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Why Jesus Waited…
“Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God,” Nicodemus said (John 3:1-2 NKJV).
by Daniel Black
n his account of the life of Jesus, Luke tells that Jesus, when He was “about 30 years of age” (3:23), was baptized in the Jordan by John the Baptist. Immediately following His baptism, Jesus “was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil” (4:1-2). After His temptation, Jesus returned to Galilee “in the power of the Spirit . . . and he taught in their synagogues” (vv. 14-15). Thus, Jesus began His public ministry in Galilee soon after His 30th birthday. Why did He wait so long to get started with the public proclamation of His mission?
A Logical Answer
One could assume Jesus did not begin His public ministry until He was 30 simply because this was God’s plan for His life (and, no doubt, it was). However, if we look for a logical reason for Jesus delaying the beginning of His public ministry until then, it seems it was because He was a bona fide rabbi. By custom, rabbis were not regarded as mature enough to begin their public ministry until age 30.
This custom was suggested by the law of Moses, which stipulated that priests could not begin their public ministry in full until they were 30 years old (Num. 4:2-3, 22-23, 29-30). In contrast to that rule, Numbers 8:24 says the Levites (who were not priestly descendants of Aaron) could begin their duties at age 25. However, Jewish teachers have interpreted this to mean that between ages 25 and 30 the Levites served as assistants, “and only at age 30 [were] counted as full-fledged members of the work force” (The Jewish Study Bible).
According to the church fathers Origen (AD 185-254) and Jerome (AD 342-420), no Jew was allowed to read the Song of Solomon until attaining 30 years of age. This, too, indicates the Jews regarded 30 as the age at which a devout and learned Jew could arrive at a state of spiritual and moral maturity sufficient to teach and lead others.
Was Jesus a Rabbi?
Jesus is frequently described by preachers and teachers as an “itinerant preacher.” What does this mean? By strict definition, this means Jesus was a preacher who traveled about from place to place. However, the connotation of itinerant preacher, when applied to Jesus, is often intended to mean He had no education or training for His ministry; and He conducted His ministry of preaching and teaching without any official sanction from the Jewish religious establishment. While Jesus was opposed by many Jewish religious leaders (but not all), the evidence within the Gospels is that He was a bona fide rabbi who taught freely in the synagogues and in the Temple at Jerusalem (John 18:19-20).
Jesus was called “Rabbi,” especially so by His own disciples, and by others. In the Greek of the New Testament, the English word rabbi comes from rabbei (“my master”), from the root word rab (“master”). In the King James Version, only in John’s Gospel is the Greek word rabbei translated “Rabbi” (addressed to John the Baptist and Jesus). However, rabbei, addressed to Jesus, occurs nine times in Matthew, Mark, and Luke; but in each of these instances, in the KJV, it is translated “Master.” In the NKJV and NIV, in each of these instances, it is translated (correctly) “Rabbi.” In addition to these texts in the Gospels where Jesus is called “Rabbi,” 44 times in the four Gospels He is called “Master,” with the title Master (Greek: didaskalos) being used as synonymous with the title Rabbi.
The Role of Bona Fide Rabbis
In Jesus’ time, rabbis were not the official clergy of Judaism. The official clergy, as established by the law of Moses, were the priests, the descendants of Aaron of the tribe of Levi. Their ministry was vitally related to the Temple at Jerusalem, and they were regarded as the official religious teachers and leaders of the Jews.
Among the priests, there were rabbis (notable teachers), and the title Rabboni (“my Great Master”) was ascribed to high priests who were descendants of the renowned priest and teacher Hillel. (Mary Magdalene greeted her resurrected Lord Jesus with the title Rabboni, John 20:16.) However, most rabbis were not priests but lay teachers, noted for their piety, knowledge, and wisdom. While these rabbis were not official clergymen, they were greatly respected by the common people who depended on them for moral direction and judicial decisions (Luke 12:13). These rabbis often had a following, a group of disciples, who were devoted to learning from them. This was the basic pattern of Jesus’ rabbinical ministry, but with some distinctive differences from the usual rabbi-disciple relationship in His time.
To become a bona fide rabbi, there was a generally accepted regimen of education and practical experience a person had to obtain. In Jesus’ time, all Jewish children
were expected to begin their public education in a synagogue school at age 5, and all, both boys and girls, were educated to 10 or 12 years of age. After this, only boys continued with their formal education in the synagogues until they were 20 years of age (considered to be the age of adulthood).
There is much regarding the religious education of adult Jews in Jesus’ time about which we cannot be certain. However, the general pattern for that education seems to have been something like this. If a young man (at 20 years of age) held promise of becoming a religious teacher, and desired to continue his education for that purpose, he would serve an apprenticeship in a synagogue until he was 30. No doubt, Jesus served His apprenticeship in the synagogue at Nazareth (Luke 4:16), where there were no famous rabbis; while Paul served his apprenticeship in Jerusalem at the feet of the eminent Rabbi Gamaliel (Acts 22:3; 5:34).
In the opinion of the official religious leaders of the Jews centered at Jerusalem, a rabbi from a synagogue in Galilee would have had almost no intellectual prestige
(John 7:15), compared with a rabbi like Paul who obtained his education and practical training to become a rabbi in Jerusalem from the great Gamaliel. (This was not unlike comparisons made today between ordained ministers with Bible college degrees and those with Ivy League seminary degrees.)
Still, Jesus was an authentic rabbi, certainly in the eyes of the common people in Galilee, and even in the opinion of a good number of the religious leaders of the Jews (John 12:42). Nicodemus, “a ruler of the Jews,” addressed Jesus as “Rabbi,” saying to Him, “We know that You are a teacher come from God” (3:1-2 NKJV).
To say Jesus was a bona fide rabbi in no way detracts from our belief in Him as the Messiah and Son of God. However, it does help us to understand the religious context in which He conducted His ministry, and the reason why He did not begin His public ministry until age 30.
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NAU’s Top Research Rankings Benefiting Flagstaff and Region
By FBN on March 19, 2019 in Columnists
I’m so proud to share that for the first time, Northern Arizona University is recognized as one of the top 100 research universities without a medical school by the National Science Foundation. NAU also moved to 201 for all universities in the United States, up from 213 in 2017.
Flagstaff and Northern Arizona, as well as our undergraduate and graduate students, are experiencing the benefits of NAU’s advanced national ranking as a top research university as measured by the National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey.
Our research programs connect to Flagstaff and Northern Arizona employers and solutions, and their success directly translates to opportunities for our community. TGen North is just one clear example of this success.
Research at NAU contributed to the overall $2.5 billion economic impact generated by NAU as well as provides critical answers to state-wide and community issues such as forest health, water quality and supply, health solutions and access to care, education best practices and astronomy.
The ranking reflects the achievements of NAU’s world-class faculty, dedicated research and support staff, talented graduate and undergraduate students, and our goal of continued research and innovation in partnership with education and workforce development as a strong central contributor to NAU’s ongoing success.
Under the leadership of Wally Covington, Ph.D., and the commitment of the team at the Ecological Restoration Institute, NAU has enhanced understanding of forest management, environmental conservation, and steps we can take to protect our forests and prevent wildfires.
Dr. Han-Sup Han joined our team as director of Forest Operations and Biomass Utilization that will establish research, development and applications in Northern Arizona.
The National Institutes of Health awarded a $21.4 million grant to NAU’s Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative. This investment will expand our capacity for biomedical, clinical and behavioral research. Dr. Julie Baldwin, and the incredible team of faculty researchers’ work is impacting many lives in our state.
On the strength of a 14.5 percent increase in reportable research expenditures in 2018 over 2017, NAU anticipates another step up in NSF’s ranking next year, amid significant competition from NSF survey peer institutions.
Congratulations and thanks are shared broadly as this impressive research recognition is a direct result of the efforts of so many individuals within our campus community, and many throughout Northern Arizona. FBN
By Rita Cheng
Rita Cheng is the president of Northern Arizona University.
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The Cargill Cocoa Promise strengthens company’s commitment to sustainable cocoa and its support for cocoa farmers and communities
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire – 20 November 2012 – Cargill has strengthened its global commitment to cocoa farmers and to building a sustainable cocoa sector through the Cargill Cocoa Promise. The commitment builds on the company’s work over the past 10 years and reconfirms Cargill’s efforts to grow and sustain cocoa farming communities while meeting the growing global demand for sustainable cocoa beans. The reinforcement of Cargill’s commitment was made at the World Cocoa Conference in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
The Cargill Cocoa Promise reinforces the company’s global commitment to making a difference in three key areas: training cocoa farmers; supporting cocoa farming communities; and investing in the long-term sustainable production of cocoa.
“The Cargill Cocoa Promise underlines our commitment to lead efforts on sustainable cocoa and support the future of cocoa farming around the world”, says Jos De Loor, President of Cargill’s cocoa and chocolate business. “We have been working closely with cocoa farmers and communities for many years. Our Promise will help strengthen cocoa production – while continuing to improve the livelihoods of farmers, increasing access to education and healthcare in local communities, and providing better access to technology, finance and infrastructure.”
The Cargill Cocoa Promise will reinforce the company’s long-term work – by continuing to partner with local governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the private sector – to provide farmer training, work in partnership with farmer organizations and positively contribute to local cocoa farming communities.
The program will see Cargill continue to invest and provide financing, training and support to maintain and strengthen a sustainable cocoa supply chain in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, Vietnam, Indonesia and Brazil. Already Cargill is on target to source over 100,000 tonnes of certified sustainable cocoa beans from Côte d’Ivoire by 2015 – making its program the largest of its kind in the country.
To date, Cargill’s activities and achievements to support sustainable cocoa production include:
· Over 1,100 farmer field schools teaching 60,000 Ivorian farmers and helping cooperatives to achieve UTZ and Rainforest Alliance certification.
· Over 26,500 Ivorian farmers across 43 UTZ and Rainforest Alliance certified cooperatives. receiving sustainable cocoa premiums payments totaling U.S. $7.6 million in 2011/12
· Training 15,000 farmers in Ghana to improve farming practices.
· A partnership with CARE that is improving access to education and healthcare amongst 130 rural cocoa-producing districts in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.
· Training 1,000 Indonesian farmers to achieve UTZ or Rainforest Alliance certification.
· Over 100 cocoa demonstration farms in Vietnam showcasing sustainable farming practices
· Helping regenerate and develop cocoa growing regions in Brazil through farmer training and seed distribution.
An important part of the Cargill Cocoa Promise is to strengthen communities by increasing access to education, working to protect and promote the rights of children, and improving health and wellbeing. Cargill is working with a number of partner organizations, including CARE and the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), to achieve this. Projects include the delivery of schools, healthcare and social improvements in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, Indonesia, Vietnam and Brazil.
De Loor continued, “We want farmers, and their communities, to be successful for many generations to come. We are committed to helping communities get better access to training, education and healthcare that will deliver a real and lasting difference.”
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SA's Cetrangolo & Zetter appointed for Hyundai A-League Grand Final 2018/19
Two of our elite referees will be officiating in the biggest game of the Australian football calendar this Sunday in the Hyundai A-League Grand Final.
South Australian match official, Paul Cetrangolo has been appointed to the A-League Grand Final 2018/19 as Assistant Referee 2.
SA's Craig Zetter has also appointed, as Assistant VAR. Craig is a currently a member of the Elite Coaching Panel and is an ex-State Referees Committee Chairman. He is an AFC Referee Assessor and Instructor as well as a Video Assistant Referee in the Hyundai A-League.
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Paul will travel to Perth on Saturday to officiate in Sunday's final between Perth Glory and Sydney FC at the newly opened Optus Stadium.
Sunday's 'big dance' will be Paul's 2nd Grand Final in succession, after officiating in last years clash between Newcastle Jets and Melbourne Victory. Paul also was officiating in Adelaide United's championship-winning performance at Adelaide Oval in the Grand Final in 2016.
Paul is happy that his hard work earned him a spot in the biggest game of the season and hopes this will send a message to the South Australian football family to follow in his footsteps.
I am thrilled and honoured to be appointed for the final in Perth. It goes to show that all the hard work I have put in at training throughout the season has paid off.
It’s an absolute privilege o represent South Australia. We’ve got a great bunch of match officials in our state and I hope that this appointment can encourage more referees and budding football fans to get into match officiating and be more than just a player.
Paul's other honors include officiating in the AFC 2012 Champions League Final, 2014 Club World Cup, 2015 Asian Cup and 2016 FFA Cup Final.
Football Federation SA congratulates both Paul and Craig and wishes them all the best for the Grand Final.
Referee: Shaun Evans
AR1: Andrew Lindsay
AR2: Paul Cetrangolo
4th Official: Christopher Beath
5th Official: Josh Mannella
VAR: Kris Griffiths-Jones
Assistant VAR: Craig Zetter
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The Future Of Payments Is Here: How Can Crypto Play Its Part?
Darryn Pollock Contributor
A customer makes a chip and pin payment with a Visa Inc. credit card at a restaurant in London, U.K. Will these card machines soon be outdated and obsolete? Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
Payment, for goods and services, is something that has been going on since the dawn of humanity. The only change has been how it has been enacted. From bartering to cryptocurrencies, methods of payment have changed dramatically throughout human history, and we are in the midst of another wave of change.
Many will feel that cryptocurrencies are the catalyst for the newest payment revolution, but those predictors are probably getting ahead of themselves. Although crypto certainly works for new and different payment methods, it is embryonic compared to the real latest trend.
Payment apps and portals are where the future of money and payment are heading. Not only is it the convenience, but it is also the added uses that can come from an app that is driving this new wave of adoption.
Austin Kimm, COO of Crypterium, a cryptocurrency wallet that is aware of the advancing of payment possibilities, notes how the change in payment options differs around the world, and in different markets.
“It is possible that these payment apps will replace cards and cash, but different technologies will be successful in different markets,” said Kimm. “In China payments are now dominated by WeChat and Alipay, QR readers that when combined are now much more significant than cards or cash. What is unique is there is no restriction to younger more tech-savvy users, but reaches all age groups."
Luckily for cryptocurrency enthusiasts, there is a growing trend for these types of payment apps to embrace and enhance, their offerings with cryptocurrencies, creating a symbiotic relationship. The fact that payment apps offer cryptocurrency investing and spending opens up their market to a growing number of people, and at the same time, these apps are normalising and helping adoption of cryptocurrencies into the mainstream market.
So where does the short to mid-term future of payments lie? Cryptocurrencies will play their part, but their future is probably more long-term than the age of the payment app. More so, what will payment apps and portals look like? for in today’s market, one function is not nearly enough.
The new generation, the more generation
Even in today’s world, one can notice a change that has been making its final moves. Cash is slowing being phased out for more virtual forms of currency. Money can now be stored on a plastic card with its digital links to the bank and payments made with relative ease at brick and mortar vendors, as well as online.
The virtual payment portals set up through banks, and backed up with credit and debit cards, allows for much more ease of payment, and efficiency; it is something that has developed due to an increasing digital demand.
But as the digital demands of people advance, so do the payment offerings. China’s WeChat is an example of a payment system that started as one thing and has moved with the times to embrace a different way of making payments.
“WeChat started with the 'lucky money' or red packets when friends and family send money as a gift, and this then spread to practically all forms of payments,” Kimm goes on to explain. “But what makes WeChat unique, in addition to its 1 billion daily users, is that they are much more than just a payments solution, you can do practically everything in everyday life through their platform, from booking a doctors appointment to ordering a meal."
“It is possible that this path will not be the repeated in other markets, but it appears that a dedicated payments solution needs to do much more than just payments. As people become more comfortable with the services then these service's popularity will increase, but to make the step so that they become the de facto payment solution, it is very likely that the service needs to be much more than payments; there has to be a use case beyond payments.”
Cash has always been limited by the fact that it can only function in one instance; between parties that are present. Card payments changed that by allowing users not necessarily to be present when making payments, and of course, digitalising the whole matter.
What Kimm is stating is correct, the draw of payment apps, much like the smartphones they operate off, is their multifunctionality.
A cryptocurrency offering
Cryptocurrencies, as still very much a misunderstood form of payment, get their foot in the door thanks to payment apps and their multifunctionality. Apps, such as Circle, Square, and even Revolut, have integrated cryptocurrency buying and selling, as well as spending in some instances, to attract new, savvy, customers to their portals.
It again goes back to the multifunctionality for people can not only use their standard virtual cash to buy and pay, but they can also invest and follow the cryptocurrency markets all in one app.
For the app creators, they are hitting the right notes by allowing cryptocurrencies, which are still very nascent, to attract a new type of user. But they are also doing a huge favour to the general cryptocurrency market as these digital tokens are being compared to something very similar to virtual cash.
“While the hype surrounding cryptocurrencies is intensifying in the financial service sector, now is too early for any immediate practical usage of cryptocurrency on a mass scale. Still, some forward-thinking banks and financial services have recognised the value of blockchain," Richard Yao, Senior Associate of Strategy and Content, IPG Media Lab, explains how, in a slightly different manner, through the example of XRP, cryptocurrencies are being used to entice new business, but also to normalise what could be the next, next, wave of payment possibilities.
“While the hype surrounding cryptocurrencies is intensifying in the financial service sector, now is simply too early for any immediate practical usage of cryptocurrency on a mass scale,” he says bluntly. “Still, some forward-thinking banks and financial services have recognised the value of blockchain, the underlying technology powering cryptocurrencies, and started to incorporate elements of blockchain distributed network design to revamp their services.
“For example, more than 100 banks have signed up with Ripple, to transform cross-border transfers with blockchain. AmEx is piloting a blockchain-based loyalty program with Boxed to offer more personalised rewards for customers.”
Kimm also adds that with increased adoption, and use-cases, especially when it comes to spending, there will be a higher drive in the use of cryptocurrencies as a currency. However, the transition for people accepting cryptocurrencies will be critical, and it will likely be a bit of a process.
“Cryptocurrency and payments are tied at the hip. For Cryptocurrency to be mainstream, there needs to be a daily use case, which in the long run means you must be able to spend it. The more you can spend it the more people will be willing to accept it. At the start that spend will more often than not require a transition from crypto to traditional money. Retailers, employees will not be willing to accept the transfer cost themselves or accept the currency fluctuation risk. Try spending Euro's in New York, and you will not get far, so there is no reason to assume they will suddenly start taking Bitcoin when the risks are seen as even higher. So payment companies have a role in facilitating this transition,” Kimm said.
Exchanging payments
If payment apps do have the current inside lane while cryptocurrency payment options are still mulled and explored, then one has to wonder what these cryptocurrency exchanges and payment solutions will look like in the future.
Kimm has already explained the success of multifunctionality, and for cryptocurrency wallets and exchanges, this is the next step due to the nature of digital currencies and the entire digital realm they occupy.
“One or two exchanges will simply be the best exchange they can be,” Kimm said, predicting the future of cryptocurrency-based payment solutions. “But most will expand by building an ecosystem of additional services, such as investment management tools or safe storage, and many will move towards other exchange services such as remittance payments or daily transactions in everyday life."
“We are offering crypto buying, selling, sending and spending, even borrowing and a stock exchange system ; there is a lot that people want their money to be able to do. I believe that very few companies will be successful by just being a great exchange, so the route to success for most will be to build an ecosystem that people need for everyday life.”
The way in which people are making payments has been continuously evolving as new wants and needs emerge from the population. The path to mass adoption and acceptance always varies, but what is good to see is the potential of cryptocurrencies are being pushed by a payment method that has already made great strides to be the immediate future - payment apps.
Cryptocurrencies are almost ahead of their time, and there needs to be a stop gap - which can integrate with their possibilities - before there is a real adoption of cryptocurrencies for payments. If cash apps can do that, while offering cryptocurrency options in their multifunctional mandate, then the path for crypto payment adoption is already laid out.
Darryn Pollock
I am an award-winning journalist that has covered a variety of topics from finance to economics, technology, and even sport. With the emergence of Blockchain technology ...
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To Lower The Debt Ceiling, Fix The Monetary System
Rich Danker Contributor
I write about economics and politics.
The federal debt limit is supposed to be a political straightjacket on tough-talking Republicans in Congress like Marco Rubio. However, there is a way out of it that would allow them to reset the debate on government spending rather than punt on an issue that has come to a head.
For decades, Republicans have been struggling to implement the conservative philosophy of limited government. What began as an unexpected sideshow with the budget deficits of Ronald Reagan turned into deep disappointment with George W. Bush and Republican Congresses of recent past. The return of the GOP leadership that was in place when that happened has been accompanied with a mea culpa of "We're sorry, we won't do it again."
Which is why the federal debt ceiling, in most years an obscure technical aspect of public finance, means something in 2011. Republicans must either agree to raise it when it approaches its statutory limit in May or risk a default that would trigger a financial crisis. The best they might be able to do in terms of a negotiation is extract some discretionary spending cuts from the White House as something to show for raising the amount of approved federal borrowing past $14.3 trillion. The inevitability of this outcome reveals that despite the justified outrage on the part of voters, the GOP still has little in the way of viable solutions to the perennial size-of-government problem.
The way out of the debt ceiling straightjacket is to show that flawed fiscal policy enabled a truly flawed monetary system. Consider that half of the Treasury securities used to fund the public debt is in the hands of foreigners. This is not an accident but the result of the world's monetary order: U.S. government IOUs form the basis of foreign central banks' reserve money supply.
The federal debt ceiling is but an arbitrary limit on the seemingly limitless potential for our debt to be absorbed around the world because it has the unique feature of reserve currency status. Likewise, U.S. dollars are debt-based instruments themselves without any independent value beyond more dollars, which the Federal Reserve can always inject into the banking system through its open market operations. It is as if the whole monetary system was set up to enable over-borrowing and big government in America.
The dollar was solidified as the world's reserve currency at the Bretton Woods monetary conference near the end of World War II. It was chosen as a compromise over the bancor, a supranational currency proposed by John Maynard Keynes. There was a check on dollar creation in the form of the gold exchange standard, which allowed foreign central banks to convert their dollar holdings into gold.
But the resulting systematic buildup of dollars abroad compelled the U.S. to completely back out of Bretton Woods by 1971, only a decade after it was fully up and running. Since that breaking point U.S. government debt has grown from $436 billion to the $14.3 trillion figure we are approaching. Federal spending, which under Bretton Woods had settled at a postwar average of about 18 percent of GDP, is now 25 percent of economic output. The monetary system, more than interest groups, pork-barrel politics, public choice theory, or weak-kneed Republicans, deserves most of the blame for this outcome.
The only way to get around the use of reserve currencies and the over-borrowing they lead to is to use an international money that is no particular government's liability. Gold has served this role throughout history, being a commodity easily identifiable as money and one with a relatively steady production rate that mirrors economic growth in the long run.
Gold lets governments settle international payments deficits rather than recycle them into the reserve currency debt of choice, which supports excessive government borrowing and transmits market bubbles. The international gold standard, fully operational from 1873-1913, is the best historical model for price stability, economic growth, and transparency.
The party of limited government has been gradually losing the size-of-government struggle for decades. Now, shortly after taking office, an insurgency elected to Congress with fervent enthusiasm for cutting spending finds itself pressed to approve increasing the already outrageously-high debt limit. Hard budget rules were adopted as part of the same debate in the late 1980s, yet such terms have come and gone as the growing debt has remained a fact of economic and political life.
The only way to swear off overspending is to upend the monetary system that promotes it. A gold standard world, in addition to supporting economic prosperity, would compel governments to plan their spending based on conventional taxation and borrowing. It would likely produce something conservatives have always talked about but failed to deliver on: balanced budgets. If the new Republicans could help make that happen, they really would be different this time around.
Rich Danker is Project Director for Economics at American Principles Project, a Washington policy organization
Rich Danker
I am Project Director for Economics at American Principles Project, a public policy organization with initiatives on monetary policy and public pension reform. I write f...
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Wal-Mart's U.S. administrative chief to step down: WSJ
Published February 28, 2013 Reuters
Wal-Mart Stores Inc's U.S. Chief Administrative Officer Tom Mars will step down in March after more than a decade with the company, in which he also served as general counsel, the Wall Street Journal reported.
A Wal-Mart spokesman declined to provide a reason for his departure and Mars could not immediately be reached for comment, the paper said. He will leave the company on March 13, it added.
As the retailer's general counsel from 2002 to 2009, Mars was involved in an investigation into bribery allegations regarding a Wal-Mart store built near the Mexican pyramids, according to company e-mails released earlier this year by members of Congress, the Journal said. (http://link.reuters.com/buv36t)
Separately, U.S. shopping center operator Kimco Realty Corp said it had received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission over an investigation involving Wal-Mart Stores and possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Wal-Mart could not be immediately reached for comment by Reuters outside of regular U.S. business hours.
(Reporting by Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Stephen Coates)
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Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits:
It's Cheddar Bo Time at Bojangles'
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December 18, 2014 // Franchising.com // Charlotte, N.C. - Starting the first week of January, Bojangles' will offer customers the popular Cheddar Bo Biscuit for a limited time
Bojangles' has announced the launch of a highly-anticipated limited time offer full of cheesy goodness - the Cheddar Bo Biscuit. Bojangles' Cheddar Bo has two slices of thick, aged-to-perfection cheddar cheese melted inside a Bojangles' made-from-scratch buttermilk biscuit.
The Cheddar Bo has been a longtime fan favorite at select restaurants in Eastern North Carolina and Virginia, but now Bojangles' customers throughout the Southeast can say #ItsCheddarBoTime and have the opportunity to enjoy the highly demanded Cheddar Bo at their local participating Bojangles'.
"While the Cheddar Bo's availability has always been limited to a select few of our restaurants, its popularity among our customers expands far beyond those regions," said Bojangles' President and CEO Clifton Rutledge. "Cheddar Bo has been one of our most-requested menu items - and for good reason - so we are thrilled to now have the opportunity to offer the deliciousness found in a warm, perfectly melted Cheddar Bo to fans throughout the Southeast."
More than 500 participating Bojangles' restaurants will carry this limited time offer through the end of March 2015, starting as early as Dec. 29th in most areas. Like all Bojangles' menu items, including Bojangles' famous breakfast, the Cheddar Bo is served fresh, all day, every day beginning no later than 5:30 a.m.
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Healthy Food With Amy’s Kitchen
by Emmaline Soken-Huberty March 14, 2018
written by Emmaline Soken-Huberty March 14, 2018
Amy’s Kitchen is known for their frozen foods that are 100% vegetarian, free from GMOs, and and free from hydrogenated fats and oils. In a world where it seems everything is artificial or processed in some way, Amy’s Kitchen stands out as a truly healthy alternative.
Andy and Rachel Berliner always valued high-quality food and a high quality of life. They met while both were on a spiritual retreat in India, and when Rachel became pregnant in 1987, they began making their own vegetarian and organic meals. Both had backgrounds in organic food. Rachel’s family had a garden and taught her everything about organic vegetables and fruits. Andy had once been the president of the Magic Mountain Herb Tea company. It made perfect sense that their love of organic food could not stay contained.
Their first product as a company, named after their daughter Amy, was a veggie pot pie. At first, they made them at home and sold them right out of their home, but they were so popular, they decided to expand. They began to sell in local stores, and soon added pizzas and soups. Today, they have over 250 products, from frozen burritos to pastas to desserts. They also offer gluten and dairy-free choices.
Andy and Rachel are perfectionists and committed to being organic. They support non-GMO food, GMO labeling, and buying locally whenever they can. When they started developing recipes for Indian and Hispanic cuisines, it took them five years to get what they wanted.
Amy’s Kitchen currently employs close to 2,000 people and has processing plants in states like California, Oregon, and Idaho. As a private company, their annual earnings are not known, but in 2012, they reported gross sales totally over $300 million. They are one of the leaders in the organic food industry, which has become worth $47 billion. In that competitive scene, Amy’s has never spent money on advertising, but thanks to social media, their sales of frozen entrees went up 70% within four years.
What does the future hold for Amy’s? The company’s namesake, Amy herself, is getting prepped to take over one day. In 2013, the Stanford grad went to England to help launch a small food processing plant. She said it was strange to be in a place where no one had heard of Amy’s, and were skeptical about whether or not “Amy” was even a real person. In general, England doesn’t take frozen vegetarian food seriously, so to be successful there, Amy’s Kitchen has its work cut out for them. While the daughter of the food empire isn’t sure if she’ll be as hands-on as your father, she is sure she would never sell the company.
Amy’s Kitchen first drive-thru
In 2015, Amy’s Kitchen made the huge step into the fast-food market by opening a drive-thru in California. The menu includes staples like burritos, pizza, veggie burgers, mac ‘n cheese, and healthy versions of chili-cheese fries and dairy-free milkshakes. In line with the company’s values, the ordering devices are solar-powered and packaging can be recycled. In the next few years, six more drive-thrus will open in the state with hopes of expanding nationwide. Keep an eye out; one might be coming your way soon!
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Hitachi, Ltd.
Establishing a flexible SD-WAN network infrastructure to support a broad range of business
Optimizing use of the network to create a diverse, secure, and cost-effective network infrastructure
Service: Hybrid WAN Solution
Increase network diversity and flexibility to respond quickly to business needs.
Proactive usage of the internet and the Cloud.
Adopted SD-WAN to create more flexible and agile network operations.
Expansion of Internet usage.Replaced branch office network assets with Cloud-based services.
Gained flexibility and reduced networking costs through the use of the internet and Cloud-based network services.
Centralized management and the ability to quickly segment networks for increasing security level.
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Mr. Motoaki Satoyama
"We have aimed toward reducing the burden of application management by switching to a service without owning network equipment as assets."
Security & Network Service Department
Mr. Eiji Kato
"One of the reasons we chose NTT Communications was that they could implement almost all of our ideas."
A flexible and diverse network infrastructure was urgently needed to support a wide-range business developments
The Hitachi Group is providing in a broad range of industries, including energy systems, infrastructure systems, information and telecommunication systems, construction machinery, and high functional materials. The company is also helping resolve social issues through the global implementation of its Social Innovation Business which combines Hitachi’s strengths in Operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) by using of digital technologies like big data analytics and AI.
Maintaining the flexibility to support the IT demands that accompany business growth highlighted the need to strengthen the company’s network infrastructure.
"The Hitachi Group needs diversity and flexibility from a network because of our expansion over a broad range of businesses. On the other hand, it is also necessary to work towards reducing the cost of the network, and we questioned how we could solve these problems," said Mr. Motoaki Satoyama , Hitachi, Ltd.
Across the globe, internet connectivity and cloud services have been improving in reliability. Hitachi determined that standardizing their IT services and adopting the internet and cloud would give them the diversity and flexibility they needed, while also keeping costs down. To implement a solution, Hitachi turned to NTT Communications (NTT Com). The NTT Com Hybrid WAN Solutions included CLOUDWAN, a software defined networking (SDN) service developed by the NTT Group North American global innovation center, NTT Innovation Institute (NTTi3).
Revolutionize the network by using SD-WAN
Achieve increased agility and strengthened security
CLOUDWAN is an SD-WAN solution. It applies SDN to the wide area network (WAN) to increase network flexibility and ease configuration. The SD-WAN solution added intelligence to the Hitachi network enabling it to automatically route network traffic over the internet or over a private MPLS network, based on the content of the network traffic and established policies.
SD-WAN improves network management agility by reducing the time needed to provision network resources from months to hours. Previously, when network configuration changes were needed, it would take weeks or months from the request being logged to the work being completed. In today’s business climate, this type of delay is not acceptable. SD-WAN configures the network using software. This dramatically improves flexibility, so changes in network configuration are responded to swiftly.
SD-WAN also supports the use of network functions virtualization (NFV). NFV virtualizes various network services that previously required dedicated appliances and security equipment, such as firewalls. The services are based in the Cloud, making it possible to take advantage of NFV functionality without having to acquire fixed cost assets and deploy them at branches and remote offices across the WAN.
For Hitachi, with its large number of global locations, NFV services are a considerable cost savings. "We don't own assets such as firewalls and use a service to provide them on the network. We also felt that it was a good decision for things like version upgrades and renewal of outdated assets, things that are necessary for operation, to be carried out on the vendor side,” added Mr. Satoyama.
Hitachi operates a global WAN (GWAN) connecting the local networks used in locations all over the world. SD-WAN segmenting enables the global network to be logically divided based on the content of the communications and company-wide policies. Segmenting can also be used to restrict unauthorized communications, such as when a cyber-attack occurs. Filter functions and NFV firewalls can be configured swiftly to improve security.
"We felt that SD-WAN was the only way to deliver a diverse and flexible network that also offers the agility, security, and cost we wanted.” said Mr. Eiji Kato, Hitachi, Ltd..
Hitachi’s GWAN is also used by local offices to connect to the internet. A proxy provides exit-point security, cutting off external communications in the event of malware. However, as use of the internet has increased, the GWAN proxy has become a bottleneck, slowing down network traffic. SD-WAN supports an internet breakout capability that routes traffic directly from the local offices to the internet via cloud-based proxies. This significantly reduces the load on the network.
Implementing a virtual network through active use of SD-WAN and NFV
The deployment of SD-WAN at Hitachi has increased business agility, improved network security, and reduced communication costs. It has also increased the ease with which the internet can be used for business. A significant advantage.
"Due to the problems of security and connection cost, there may be cases where use of the Internet is restricted, but if it is necessary for business, then it should be used. I expect there will be a good result from a cost perspective," said Mr. Satoyama.
"We felt NTT Com had the attitude to understand the way the world is going, focus on the future, and take on new challenges. Also, from a functionality perspective, another key point was that they could implement most of the things we wanted. These are the reasons we decided on NTT Com in the end," added Mr. Kato.
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Business Overview: Since its establishment in 1910, the Hitachi Group has continually ventured into a broad range of fields, and created various products. The company is focusing on Social Innovation Business, which combines our strengths in operational technologies(OT) and information technology(IT) to solve social issues by using digital technologies like big data analytics and AI. Social Innovation Business combines Hitachi’s strengths, OT and IT.
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Calm amid the storms
By Nigel Allen 2003-10-07T00:00:00+01:00
With the reinsurance industry retaining its negative outlook, Nigel Allen reveals how those at this year's Rendez-Vous de Septembre were still positive as the renewal season approaches.
There were two storms battering the reinsurance sector as this year's Rendez-Vous de Septembre rolled into town. The first was Hurricane Fabian, a category two hurricane, which was tearing across the north Atlantic on a collision course with Bermuda. The second was the announcement by most of the large ratings agencies that, despite reporting significant profit increases in the first half of 2003, the reinsurance industry was to retain its negative outlook status.
Sustaining profitability"The hot issues are profitability and security," explained Charles Werner Skrzynski, Chief Executive Officer of XL Re Europe. "With all of the pressures we have seen on the ratings of reinsurance companies, even the larger ones, most have been either downgraded or put on negative watch because of what was regarded as an insufficient profit record, and I think that we all have to restore our profits and think about the bottom line." There was a general consensus among those attending the Rendez-Vous that the industry as a whole was under severe pressure to ensure that not only did it restore adequate levels of profitability, but that it did so in a manner which enabled it to guarantee that such levels, once achieved, could be sustained over the longer term - the so-called return to underwriting discipline.
Many reinsurers have reported increased profits in the first half of 2003 as a result of the hardening market the industry experienced in 2002, one which was clearly accelerated by the events of September 11. However, a number of attendees at Monte Carlo voiced their concerns about the ability of the industry to achieve sustainable levels of profitability going forward. Commented Lord Levene of Portsoken, Chairman of Lloyd's, in an address on the future of Lloyd's: "In the medium to long term, if we are to retain and attract capital in the insurance industry, there needs to be a radical change of thinking." He continued: "Don't get me wrong. The significant improvement in underwriting conditions across the market since September 11 is going a long way to rebuild insurers' and reinsurers' balance sheets. But the responsibility we must grasp for the future is to ensure discipline is maintained, in order to preserve a healthy, robust industry able to meet its obligations."
The biggest question, it would appear, is how reinsurers will react to the arrival of the next soft market, which despite some calls for a flattening of the cycle, is accepted as an inevitability and which, many suggested, is already being felt in some lines. This was a question which Hemant Shah, President and CEO of RMS, was keen to have answered. "From our perspective as a modeling organisation, it is understanding to what degree the industry can continue to exercise discipline in risk underwriting on the basis of objective risk analysis in the face of perhaps some suggestions that things are beginning to soften in some of the shorter property cat lines," he said. And it is clear that it will not only be the modeling companies that show an interest in the reaction of the market to the next turn in the cycle. "The analysts will be looking very carefully at how they [the reinsurers] handle the market going forward if it does start to soften," warned Callum Stewart, Managing Director of London-headquartered broker Heath Lambert Group, "and the loss ratios start to increase and the stock market increases do not have the required affect."
A rating reviewUnsurprisingly, the announcements by the rating agencies that the outlook on the reinsurance sector was to remain negative coupled with the recent downgrades of many of the leading reinsurers - and in particular that of Munich Re - in the weeks prior to the event, were to be found at the heart of many conversations over the duration of the event.
The negative outlook was maintained for a number of reasons, including concerns about reserve inadequacies, the duration of the hard market, the potential impact of a return to a soft market, particularly on profitability and solvency levels, and the continued volatility in the investment markets. However, the torrent of ratings downgrades that the sector has experienced in recent months, which has seen Moody's downgrade eleven out of 29 reinsurers in the first half of 2003, and Standard & Poor's downgrade seven of its `top 20 reinsurers' over the course of the summer, would appear to be slowing. Despite the prevalence of negative outlooks, the agencies, and in particular Standard & Poor's, were relatively upbeat about the sector, believing that it had perhaps now reached a turning point. In a release issued at the Rendez-Vous, Rob Jones, Managing Director at Standard and Poor's in London, stated: "We're nearing the point where we would stabilise our view of the reinsurance industry. Prices, and perhaps more importantly, terms and conditions, are holding up very well, and the market as a whole is earning money which will enable it to replenish, at least in part, the capital it has lost in recent years."
A number of practitioners raised concerns that the rating agencies were starting to hold too much sway over the direct day-to-day activities of reinsurers, to such an extent that they were now in a position to influence individual transactions. "You are seeing rating changes in reinsurance agreements," explained Alan Levin, a partner at US law firm Edwards & Angell, "in acquisition agreements and in commutation deals. So we now have a third party, which is not regulated, affecting commerce and the way companies do business."
That so-called `rating triggers' were becoming increasingly common was, as Peter Hughes, a director at Standard and Poor's in London, explained, a concern for the agency, and something which he described as "a dangerous tool", but added that the agencies had no power to prevent it. "It is the market which controls what happens in the market. We publish our opinion, our corporate opinion, and it is how the market reacts to that which governs what happens to the people in that market." He continued: "If you say that A is good and B is bad, you create what are known as credit cliffs... so that if we downgrade a company from A- to BBB+, which for us is a relatively small notch of change in the degree of probability of failure to meet obligations to policyholders, still the market can have an enormous reaction to it."
At the right priceWhile Rendez-Vous attendees were quick to rebuff any suggestions that the reinsurance industry is in the verge of a return to soft market conditions, it was clear that there are pockets of softening as a result of increased capacity and a lack of any significant losses in the last two years, particularly in some short-tail lines. Ross McKenzie, Chairman of Aon Re International, commenting on a recent pan-European survey, said: "Much of the evidence from our key reinsurance markets points to the onset of a soft market in some lines of short-tail business, particularly property and in some personal lines. Reinsurers are coming under intense pressure to cut certain rates in order to maintain market share and levels of premium income, pressure which will thoroughly test their resolve to maintain current levels of underwriting profit in the 2004 renewals."
However, while pressure is most certainly being brought to bear on reinsurers to reduce prices in these sectors, the majority continue to struggle to boost severely depleted balance sheets and strengthen inadequate reserve kitties, and many are keen to maintain rates at 2002 levels. Although, as Mr McKenzie added: "The supply and demand equation is likely to fall in favour of buyers, who, in absence of any significant losses or reductions in capacity, will be anticipating favourable rate reductions."
In contrast, it is not expected that there will be any similar fall in rates for some of the longer tail lines of business, where capacity remains tight and the pricing power is firmly in the hands of the reinsurers. Pricing on liability lines, particularly in the US, remains high, although there were some indications that new sources of capacity entering the sector and the subsequent pressure this places on reinsurers already established in the market could lead to a pricing review. "Liability has remained very much harder," said Callum Stewart, comparing it to property business. "However, just recently we have seen some easing in upper layers of liability covers on the more catastrophe end."
With the renewal season fast approaching, it is to be expected that the issue of pricing would be high on the agenda of most delegates, although there were suggestions that it had been knocked off the number one spot this year. Geoffrey Bromley, Chairman of Guy Carpenter in London, believed that pricing was no longer the only driving factor in the lead up to the renewal season. "It is appropriateness of cost rather than the cheapest price, and I think it is more on the quality of the solution that is going to be delivered. That is what I am hearing more and more at this Rendez-Vous, and that is a big difference from prior years, when price was certainly number one on the agenda." He added: "I think that clients are going to be a little more demanding this year. In the past few years, the issues of availability of coverage and indeed price of coverage have figured prominently. I think that more time will be spent on efficacy of covers and considering whether what is being provided meets the needs of the clients."
A further factor which may contribute to reducing the influence of pricing is the increased use of modeling and the more sophisticated nature of the models. It is now no longer a case of, "Do you model?", but rather, "What model do you use?". As Henry Keeling, CEO of XL Re, explained, many reinsurers, and especially in the property cat area, are employing as many as three recognised modeling systems, which "should argue that the cyclicality of the market may be compressed, reducing volatility because everyone has access to the same benchmarks." His comments were supported by those of Mr Skrzynski, who said: "We have more sophisticated models and are relying on more comprehensive statistical information. I think that everyone has understood from the cedant to the broker to the reinsurance company that the more reliable and comprehensive the information, the better the exposure taken by the reinsurer can be assessed, the retention kept by the cedant, and the price of the commodity itself, which is the reinsurance cover."
In contrast, while reinsurers are increasingly implementing modeling systems, the same does not appear to apply to technology in general. The industry seems determined to hold onto its status as one of the most technophobic in the financial services marketplace. Moves are afoot in the London market to address this issue. Commenting on the implementation of the London Market Principal slips and developments in relation to the establishment of the Kinnect platform, Lord Levene said: "Collectively, as an industry, we have a responsibility to get smarter about technology. About using it to model and understand risk. About harnessing it to revolutionise processing. About using it to deliver the insurance product more efficiently." What astounded Robert Gogel, CEO of RebusIS, was the lack of discussion about how reinsurers were addressing bottom line profitability. While he agreed that on the income side, rate adjustments and improved risk assessment provided a possible solution, on the cost side he warned that, "unless there is some significant cost taken out of the system through technology, I'm afraid the industry will continue to be plagued by profitability going forward."
Monaco aftermathDespite the storms buffeting the reinsurance industry, Monte Carlo was beset by a sense of poise, a belief that perhaps the worst was over. "I get the feeling that the industry is calmly addressing the very major issues that it has to resolve," said Michael Butt, Chairman of Bermudian `Class of 2001' re/insurer AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd, "in terms of its capital needs, its ability to hold and create profit, to rebuild balance sheets that have been destroyed." But he warned that this process was far from over, stating that, "there is still damage to come."
It will be interesting to see whether the industry can live up to its current air of conviction, and hold its nerve when the hard market begins to melt in earnest, rather than following the tried and tested route of chasing the market down. As Moody's makes clear in its `Global Reinsurance' review, if it is to maintain its credit rating upon the onset of a soft market, "the reinsurance industry's commitment to maintaining adequate pricing will be paramount". Historically, it has failed to do so. However, with the return to disciplined underwriting strategies and the acceptance that equity markets are no longer a means of propping up ailing profits, perhaps this cycle will be different.
Nigel Allen is the Assistant Editor of Global Reinsurance.
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Imran Khan: Pakistan Needs a Strong New Leader
By Eric Margolis
Global Research, August 05, 2018
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The words ‘hope’ and ‘Pakistan’ do not often appear together. Pakistan, a sprawling nation of 205 million, is hard to govern, even harder to finance, and seething with tribal or religious violence and discord.
But Pakistan, which for me is one of the most interesting and important nations on earth, is by far the leading nation of the Muslim world and a redoubtable military power. Created in 1947 from former British India as a haven for oppressed Muslims, Pakistan has been ruled ever since by military juntas or by slippery and often corrupt civilian politicians.
After decades of dynastic politics under the Bhutto and Sharif families, there is suddenly hope that newly elected cricket star Imran Khan and his Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI) may – just may – tackle Pakistan’s four biggest problems: endemic corruption, military interference, political tribalism, and a half-dead economy.
Former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, appears to be headed for jail over a corruption scandal unless he is allowed to go into exile in London. The exiled former military dictator, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, is hiding out in Dubai awaiting charges of treason.
I spent a good deal of time with Pakistan’s former leaders, Gen. Zia-ul-Haq and his bitter foe, Benazir Bhutto, both of whom were later murdered. Neither Musharraf nor Nawaz measured up to these colorful personalities in political skills, vision, or personality.
Imran Khan is sometimes called ‘Pakistan’s Jack Kennedy’ for his movie-star good looks, charisma and zesty love life. He no longer plays professional cricket though he is still idolized in Pakistan and, interestingly, bitter foe India.
Khan (who is of Pashtun tribal blood) is also a philanthropist and respected thinker. He says he is determined to begin rooting corruption out of Pakistan and to revivify its ailing economy. Pakistan’s GDP is only $1,641 per person compared to India’s $2,134. The illiteracy rate is about 40%, notably among women who are the primary teachers of the young.
As Imran Khan is about to take office, Pakistan’s coffers are almost empty. Islamabad has had to take 12 loans from the International Monetary Fund in the last 40 years, in part to pay for its oil imports.
Now, Islamabad is negotiating yet another loan of $57 billion from its most important ally, China, whose vast belt and road project covering transportation, ports and infrastructure seeks to modernize Pakistan and turn it into a primary conduit to the Arabian Sea.
But Donald Trump’s Washington is angry over China’s dollar diplomacy, formerly a preserve of US foreign policy. US State Secretary Mike Pompeo, who plays bad cop to Trump’s bad cop, lambastes Pakistan for the Chinese loan.
The White House is obviously dismayed by China’s growing influence over Pakistan caused, in large part, by the US decision to cut aid to Pakistan and favor its old enemy, India. President George Bush aided India’s military nuclear program, alarming China and Pakistan. Now, Trump is working to mobilize India against China. So far, India has been too smart to act as an American strategic proxy.
Imran Khan will now have a chance to resolve the Indo-Pakistani dispute over contested Kashmir that has flared since 1947. India keeps one million soldiers and police there to repress the rebellious majority Muslim population that seeks to join Pakistan or create an independent state. The UN mandated a referendum to determine Kashmir’s future but India ignores it.
The new Khan government must also try to find a way to get the US out of the giant hole it has dug in Afghanistan. Imran has been a vocal critic of the stalemated US war in Afghanistan. Soon, he will control the major supply lines to US forces there.
India and Pakistan are important nuclear-armed powers. Their nuclear forces are on a hair-trigger alert of less than 5 minutes. There is frequent fighting on the Kashmir cease-fire line between the two sides. India’s vastly larger forces are poised to invade Pakistan. Islamabad says it must have tactical nuclear weapons to deter such an overwhelming Indian attack.
The Kashmir border is the world’s most dangerous flash point.
Imran Khan may be able to calm tensions over Kashmir and open meaningful talks with India where he is very popular. In the 1980’s, Gen. Zia ul Haq headed off an invasion by India by flying to Delhi on the spur of the moment to attend a cricket match. This writer expects Imran Khan to similarly appear in India for his ultimate diplomatic test match.
Copyright © Eric Margolis, Global Research, 2018
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Madame Blavatsky: Spiritual Traveler
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Madame Blavatsky is considered by many to be a spiritual genius and her remarkable synthesis of western occultism and eastern traditions became a foundation for the New Age. The life she lived was no less remarkable. It is said that she left her husband to become a trick rider in the circus. Then traveling alone, she entered forbidden Tibet. This is where she gained her respect for eastern culture and religion which became the basis of her teachings. Her detractors say that she was a fraud whose one real talent was that she knew how to tell a good tale.
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Four suspects were arrested on Wednesday during a series of raids against the German chapter of a right-wing extremist group known as Blood & Honor, police and prosecutors said.
Fifteen raids were conducted across five states on the basis of a criminal investigation against 14 alleged members of the group, which has existed in Germany since 2000.
The group is accused of importing and distributing right-wing extremist music and merchandise, the Munich prosecutor's office and Lower Bavaria's police force said.
Blood & Honor is a neo-Nazi music promotion network and political group founded in Britain in the late 1980s. The group organizes white-supremacist concerts and distributes a magazine.
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Matthew Meselson
Posted on August 27, 2012 by Emily Mace
Matthew Meselson, a Harvard molecular biologist whose famous experiment substantiated the newly discovered double-helix structure of DNA and who prompted the United States to drop its biological and chemical weapons programs, has won a Lasker Award, a scientific honor sometimes referred to as “America’s Nobel.”
Meselson won the Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science “for a lifetime career that combines penetrating discovery in molecular biology with creative leadership in public policy aimed at eliminating chemical and biological weapons,” according to the citation.
“In the early days of molecular biology, Matthew Meselson laid the biochemical groundwork for several key areas: DNA replication, DNA repair, DNA recombination, and DNA restriction,” says a statement from Joseph Goldstein, chair of the Lasker jury committee and a Nobel laureate at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Goldstein singled out a 1958 paper. It describes what others have called “the most beautiful experiment in biology.” In it, Meselson and Franklin Stahl, a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology, reported that DNA replicates itself by making new double-stranded twins, each containing one strand of the original parent molecule and one newly formed strand. The findings substantiated Watson and Crick’s proposed mechanism and their double-stranded helical model of DNA.
Soon after he came to Harvard, Meselson embarked on what became a 40-year campaign to prevent the production and use of biological and chemical weapons. It began in 1963 when he was invited to spend a summer at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in Washington. He found a large development and production program in biological weapons, which was potentially devastating built relatively inexpensive.
In another international mystery of the Cold War era, Meselson led a team to Russia in 1992 and 1993 to determine the cause of a 1979 anthrax epidemic that killed more than 60 people in Sverdlovsk. For years, the Soviets blamed tainted meat, which Meselson had described as plausible in Congressional testimony. But he insisted an on-site inquiry was needed. After repeated attempts to bring independent investigators to Sverdlovsk, Meselson and his wife, medical anthropologist Jeanne Guillemin, were allowed to lead a team to probe the cause of the epidemic. After many interviews with victims’ families, it became clear that nearly all of the people who died worked or lived within a long narrow zone downwind of a military microbiological facility suspected of developing biological weapons. With local meteorological records, Meselson pinpointed the day the germs escaped.
—By Carol Cruzan Morton, Molecular and Cellular Biology News, Harvard University
Click here for supplemental reading about Matthew Meselson on Amazon.
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Harvard's Education and Business Schools Engage Nine Urban School Districts in Partnership to Boost Student Success
By Newseditor
The Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Business School (HBS), and nine urban school districts today announced the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a joint venture, collaboratively designed to dramatically improve the educational outcomes of these school systems. The districts, representing more than a million students, include many of the urban hubs across the nation including Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, and San Francisco.
"Although there are many excellent individual schools in the United States, there are very few K-12 urban school systems that have achieved a uniform high level of excellence that allows students to be educated to their optimum potential," says Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Warren Professor of the History of American Education and dean of HGSE. "The ability to scale up success remains one of the most intractable problems in education and a barrier to real educational progress."
Research, and the experience of other institutions, has shown that addressing this problem is not just a matter of applying lessons from the management of other sectors. It is necessary to understand the many forces that drive the educational enterprise--political, pedagogical, governmental, technological, logistical, and legal--then to adapt and integrate knowledge from the private, nonprofit, and education sectors to devise new insights and approaches within that demanding context.
"Leading and managing in the multifaceted and dynamic environment of an urban school system is an incredible challenge that is complicated further by the heavy day-to-day demands of the job," says Kim Clark, dean of HBS. "We believe that bringing the expertise of Harvard's Education and Business schools together with the practical experience of the participating school districts will lead to new ideas and approaches that can have a significant impact on education."
The PELP faculty team invited, through a competitive process, urban school districts to partner in the design and delivery of an innovative executive education program tailored specifically to meet the actual challenges that educational leaders are facing. The districts are: Anne Arundel County (MD), Boston (MA), Charleston (SC), Chicago (IL), Harrisburg (PA), Minneapolis (MN), Montgomery County (MD), San Diego (CA), and San Francisco (CA).
"Each of the districts had an improvement strategy and long-term vision to enhance student achievement," says Stacey Childress, the senior researcher managing the project for HBS and HGSE. "We'll be working with the individual districts to design, manage and lead complex systems geared toward high performance."
Core faculty members include Richard Elmore, James Honan, Robert Peterkin, and Robert Schwartz from HGSE, and , Nancy Beaulieu, Allen Grossman, Stig Leschly, and David Thomas from HBS.
The three-year project will have two principal components: a weeklong executive education program offered each summer beginning in 2004 for a five- to seven-person leadership team from each district, during which the team would learn from the experiences of other districts while developing strategic improvement goals for the coming year; and periodic on-site facilitation during the year from participating faculty and staff.
At the same time, participating faculty will conduct research aimed at measuring the effectiveness of the program, identifying the key underlying forces that are shaping educational leadership in urban school systems, and developing a set of powerful ideas to enable district leadership teams to create high performing systems.
Principal funding for the Public Education Leadership Project comes from the Harvard Business School Class of 1963 and will subsidize the development and delivery of the program over the first three years (FY '04-'06).
Please contact David Lampe at 617-495-6336, Christine Sanni at 617-496-5873, or Greer Bautz at 617-496-1884.
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Measuring Up: A Q&A with Professor Dan Koretz
By Jill Anderson
Measuring Up, the new book by Professor Dan Koretz, gets beneath the surface of educational testing by taking a deep look at key issues that affect students' scores. Students in one of his HGSE courses, Understanding Today's Educational Testing, persuaded Koretz that a book was needed to help not only educators, but the public at large, to understand testing. "Testing has become enormously important with an extraordinarily powerful influence on schooling, and it increasingly dominates public debate about education," he says. "The debate, however, is more heat than light, in part because testing is so poorly understood."
What do you consider some of the most fundamental issues in educational testing today?
In this era of No Child Left Behind, the elephant in the room is high-stakes testing, which holds educators and students accountable for test scores. High-stakes testing has become the cornerstone of education policy in this country, and it is having tremendous effects on schooling, on teachers, and on kids. Unfortunately, we don't do a good job with accountability, and the issues we need to confront to do it better are poorly understood and are often swept under the rug. For example, the evidence is clear that high-stakes testing can produce severely inflated scores, meaning increases in scores far larger than real improvements in student learning. Few policymakers fully understand this problem, and some simply deny it, so it does not get addressed.
There are many other important issues raised by our current uses of tests. For example, at the federal level there is a strong effort to improve the education of students with disabilities and of nonnative speakers of English. As part of this effort, these students are increasingly included in the same testing programs used with the general education population. As a former special education teacher, I consider these efforts to improve the education of students with special needs to be long overdue. However, our policies for testing them are not entirely sensible, and we risk harming precisely the kids we want to help.
It is not only policymakers who confront test scores. Parents also need to know how to make use of test scores in choosing a school and how to interpret their own children's scores. Concerned citizens often need to understand test scores to make sense of the frequent press coverage of international comparisons of student achievement. Teachers need to understand test scores to make use of them in improving instruction.
Do you think the public is aware of the limitations of testing and some of the mistakes that occur?
For the most part, I think the public has a very limited understanding of these issues. First, it is essential to distinguish the inevitable limitations of tests from mistakes or distortions. Even a very well-designed test is subject to a degree of imprecision, just as a political poll is subject to a margin of error. For this reason, parents in some states, including Massachusetts, receive reports showing that their child's performance falls within some range of the score they actually obtained. This is what is meant by "reliability." The more reliable a test score, the smaller that range of uncertainty. Moreover, different tests of the same subject often sample differently from the material in that subject and therefore provide somewhat different views of achievement.
But sometimes a score is not just imprecise but also misleading. This is called "bias," and it can arise from many sources. For example, the math scores of students for whom English is a second language may be misleadingly low if the math test includes linguistically complex test items.
To their credit, some states and localities have offered the public some explanation of these issues. Still, I think few parents, and for that matter, few educators really understand them because they have never seen an adequate explanation. That was one reason I wrote Measuring Up -- to provide people with a straightforward, nontechnical explanation of issues such as reliability and bias.
What advice do you have for parents and noneducators looking at the latest test results from their children or from within their communities?
If used sensibly, test scores provide unique and valuable information about student achievement. The trick is using them sensibly, which requires recognizing the limitations of testing as well as its strengths.
Don't take test scores to mean more than they do. Tests measure only some of the important goals of schooling, and even in measuring those, they are only approximate indicators. They are subject to measurement error; different tests of the same subject often provide a somewhat different picture; and indicators other than tests often tell quite a different story. Therefore, a single score, taken alone, cannot provide a comprehensive measure of the achievement of a student, and it certainly is not sufficient to judge the quality of a school or an educational system.
Use tests together with other information. Ignore small differences in scores, which often do not represent meaningful differences in achievement. In this era of high-stakes testing, be wary of score inflation; improvements in scores, particularly very large and rapid ones, may be illusory.
None of this is reason to ignore test scores. They provide important information that one cannot get from other sources. For example, we know that grading standards vary markedly from school to school. Therefore, grades are not necessarily comparable from one place to another, but test scores are. Use scores for what they provide, but be sensible.
How can education policymakers make testing a more effective part of accountability?
The advice I offer to parents about using and interpreting scores applies to educators and policymakers as well, but they have additional responsibilities for deciding how tests will be used.
Let's start with test-based accountability, which is perhaps the most pressing issue today. As both a former schoolteacher and a parent of two children who went through public schools, I am convinced that we need more effective ways to hold educators accountable, and I believe that testing has to be a part of an effective accountability program. Doing this the way we do in many places now, however -- treating one test as a comprehensive indicator of student achievement, pretending that scores taken by themselves are a trustworthy indicator of school quality, and rewarding and punishing teachers and students for scores -- is just too simple. It ignores not only what we know about testing, but also what we know from many other fields, such as healthcare, about the effects of incentive systems. We face an enormous challenge in designing better educational accountability systems, and the first step in doing that is recognizing the limitations of what has been tried to date.
What can educators and policymakers do now to start on the path toward more effective accountability? First, they need to step back and ask themselves what the goals of schooling are and what they want to see happening in schools. For an accountability system to work well, it has to recognize the range of important goals that teachers should be addressing, not just the aspects of math and reading that are easily measured by standardized tests. We don't have a good recipe for doing this yet, and therefore, policymakers and educators need to experiment and try new approaches. Second, because, due to score inflation, rising scores are not sufficient to indicate that reforms are working, it is essential to evaluate these efforts. Are we seeing the types of changes we want when we observe classrooms? Are scores being inflated, or are teachers finding ways to boost student learning?
What other advice do you have for educators and educational policymakers about testing?
Leaving aside the issue of accountability, I offer educators and policymakers other advice in Measuring Up. For example, we should stop placing so much emphasis on "performance standards" in reporting the performances of schools and students. For any number of reasons, this is a very poor strategy for reporting, one that generates bad incentives, creates badly distorted views of trends in performance, and leads to serious misinterpretations by the public. We should be more realistic about testing students with special needs so that we can begin designing more effective and helpful ways of assessing them. All in all, we have to be realistic and careful in our uses of tests. As I note at the end of Measuring Up, "In all, educational testing is much like a powerful medication. If used carefully, it can be immensely informative, and it can be a very powerful tool for changing education for the better. Used indiscriminately, it poses a risk of various and severe side effects. Unlike powerful medications, however, tests are used with little independent oversight. Let the buyer beware."
Tests and Stress Bias
Strengthening the correlation between student stress levels and high-stakes tests.
Testing Mode Matters
New research finds a score penalty for computer-based testing — at least at first.
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Exclusive Video: Five Finger Death Punch Present'Wrong Side of Heaven,' Track by Track, Episode 4
By Guitar World Staff 2013-07-19T19:00:27Z Artist
Today, GuitarWorld.com presents the exclusive premiere of the fourth episode of Five Finger Death Punch's new "track by track" video series.
In the clip below, the 5FDP crew preview two new tracks — "Anywhere But Here" and "Dot Your Eyes" — from their upcoming album, The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1, which will be available July 30.
The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1 is available for pre-order on iTunes and Amazon. There's also a deluxe edition of the album (available for pre-order here) that comes with a bonus 15-track live CD, Purgatory [Tales From The Pit]. The physical pressing of the album also comes with a redeemable limited-edition T-shirt.
A collectible limited-edition set featuring a 5FDP lunch box, the deluxe version of the album with the bonus live CD, plus assorted collectible items, can be checked out on the band's web store.
The track listing of The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1 is "Lift Me Up" (featuring Rob Halford of Judas Priest) | "Watch You Bleed" | "You " | "Wrong Side Of Heaven" | "Burn MF" | "I. M. Sin" | "Anywhere But Here" (featuring Maria Brink) | "Dot Your Eyes And Cross Your Teeth" | "M.I.N.E. (End This Way)" | "Mama Said Knock You Out" (featuring Tech N9ne) | "Diary Of A Deadman" | "I.M. Sin" (featuring Max Cavalera) | "Anywhere But Here" (Duet with Maria Brink) and "Dot Your Eyes And Cross Your Teeth" (featuring Jamey Jasta).
Five Finger Death Punch are co-headlining this summer's Rockstar Engergy Drink Mayhem Festival alongside Rob Zombie. For all the Mayhem dates, visit rockstarmayhemfest.com. In the fall, FFDP are kicking off a headline Canadian tour. For their full itinerary, visit fivefingerdeathpunch.com/tour.
For more about Five Finger Death Punch, visit their official website and Facebook page.
Black Star Riders Share New Single, “Ain’t the End of the World”
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Men's Hats /
Hats in the Belfry is thrilled to present our newest collaboration with Albertus Swanepoel for Spring 2019. Our relationship with Albertus has produced some of our most dynamic contemporary hats, but we believe that our collection this season represents our most sublime effort yet.
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Albertus Swanepoel has been “fashion’s favorite milliner” for quite some time. The highlight of his career in New York was receiving the coveted first runner up Award in the Vogue/CFDA Fashion Fund Competition in 2008. In 2009, he was nominated as Accessory designer of the year for the CFDA/Swarovski Award. After graduating as a Graphic designer, Mr. Swanepoel began his career in fashion under his Quartus Manna label in the 1980’s in Johannesburg, South Africa.
He won the COTY Award as top designer in the country in 1987 and left for NYC in 1989.
Swanepoel trained as a milliner under Janine Galimard at FIT and briefly performed as the Style Editor at Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine. His work has been featured in most international fashion magazines. Two of his hats were part of the “Hats, an Anthology” an exhibition curated by Stephen Jones. This exhibition started at the Victoria and Albert Museum and then traveled worldwide.
Swanepoel was also awarded the Accessory Designer of the Year award in the African Fashion International fashion week in Johannesburg in 2010, and was nominated for Accessory Designer in the WGSN Awards in the same year.
In the fall of 2013, the prestigious men’s store, Odin New York, created an installation in honor of Mr. Swanepoel’s craft and work throughout the years. Newly into 2014, Mr. Swanepoel has been asked by Bench Manila to design a capsule collection exclusive to the Philippine market. In 2014 he also received the Laureate Award from the University of Pretoria, where he studied Fine Arts. He still lives in New York City, collaborating with some of the best designers in the industry and continues to produce collections under his namesake label.
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Jamie Draven - Biography
Born: May 14, 1979
Famous for: Giving his dancing sibling a hard time in Billy Elliot
Horoscope : Capricorn
Despite having no theatrical training, Manchester-born Jamie moved to London to try his hand at acting after becoming disenchanted with his A-level studies. By 19 he had landed the role of Dex Lister in the TV drama Butterfly Collectors, and went on to gained international recognition as Billy Elliot's bullying brother Tony in the hit film. Other TV roles include Gary in the BBC film Faith, and an ITV adaptation of Nicci French's book Beneath The Skin.
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WHEN YOU LOOK AWAY FROM THE 'DOLLS' THEY PLAY
Dee Wallace (E.T., CUJO, THE HOWLING) stars in DOLLS, a new supernatural thriller from first-time feature director Cuyle Carvin that will be released on DVD and VOD in the U.S. this July.
DOLLS concerns a struggling children's book author and his rebellious teenage daughter who move into a house they've inherited and find mysterious dolls in the attic. They soon learn that the dolls have a sinister -- and deadly -- past.
The screenplay is by Justin Hawkins & Josh Hawkins, with Jeff Miller (OUIJA HOUSE, THE TOYBOX) also contributing to the story.
Wallace plays a neighbour who knows about the dolls and their ties to the house. The movie also stars frequent Miller collaborator Tom Downey (AXE GIANT: THE WRATH OF PAUL BUNYAN), as well as newcomer Trinity Simpson, Bret Green (CBS's THE INSPECTORS), Elise Muller (BAGHEAD), Melinda deKay, and Robert R. Ryel.
Miller (who also produced the recent DEATH KISS and THE RUSSIAN BRIDE) produced through his company Millman Productions, along with Robert Michael Ryan (NECROSIS). Carvin and Ryan previously directed and produced the "Dark Corners" horror anthology series. Josh Hawkins and Ben Demaree were Co-Producers on DOLLS, with Demaree also serving as Director of Photography. Veronica Rodarte handled makeup FX. Ken Stachnik was Gaffer. Korey Rowe edited. Holly Amber Church composed the score.
“It's my second film in just over a year with Dee Wallace, and she truly is an American treasure," says Miller.
"DOLLS will be a creepy addition to her resume and is an impressive feature debut for my friend Cuyle Carvin.”
Uncork'd Entertainment is handling worldwide distribution on DOLLS and it will be released on DVD and VOD on 2nd July.
For more information and updates, please visit the film’s Facebook page at:
www.facebook.com/dollsmovie
Labels: Cuyle Carvin, Dee Wallace, Dolls, Uncork'd Entertainment
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This holiday season, help us strengthen our communities.
Hospitality House is deeply connected to the residents who live here in the Tenderloin, Mid-Market, and Sixth Street Corridor, having called this neighborhood home for almost 50 years. We are working to mitigate the effects of extreme poverty and unrelenting market rate development through six complementary community programs, and we are very proud of their many achievements. Among the highlights of this past year:
Our Employment Program hosted several hiring events with committed employers that not only offer concrete job options, but pathways to a truly better life with higher wages and better benefits.
Our Community Building Program sponsored a unique event that brought together more than 125 activists and youth leaders to acknowledge two remarkable leaders, Pam Tau Lee and Stephen Bingham, for a lifetime of civil rights activism, public interest law, and movement building work spanning more than six decades.
Our Self-Help Centers expanded wellness activities for individuals from our neighborhoods and also provided them with new opportunities to cultivate a sense of community.
Under new leadership, our Shelter Program implemented innovative approaches to socialization including an Animal Assisted Therapy Program where service animals interact with shelter residents, promoting a sense of companionship.
Our Community Arts Program continued to promote our core values through art as illustrated by our on-site gallery exhibitions and the incredible mural at Clarion Alley created collaboratively by the CAP staff and artists.
In the coming year, we look forward to building upon our history of success. Your support makes it possible that potentially life-changing moments – for individuals and for the communities we serve – continue to happen every day. As program participants move to break the cycle of poverty – through the arts, through gainful employment, through civic engagement – the community is strengthened. In a real sense, Hospitality House reflects the best of what community truly means: people coming together to celebrate the possible, to share experiences.
Please considering making a donation by simply clicking the button below:
Thank you for strengthening individuals and our community through your generous gift to Hospitality House. Together, we’re making a difference – today and tomorrow!
Meet Troy Henry
After an exhaustive search for a new Director of Programs, Hospitality House welcomes Troy Henry into the role. Troy brings with him over a decade of experience in job development program designs and team building. As the Career Center Director at the Success Center of San Francisco, he cultivated full employment cycles for clients – from outreach and recruitment to career planning and placement.
Before his non-profit career began, Troy worked in the tech field for over a decade. During this time, he struggled with addiction and after a few stints in jail, he was compelled to make a change. “I had had it,” he shares. “Just tired of living the life I was living. Didn’t know what I wanted to do or how I wanted to do it. I just wanted it to stop.” He made a conscious choice to work on himself and found his way into the non-profit world. He started as a resource center clerk moving up the rank to job developer and eventually to a director position for both Goodwill Industries and the Success Center.
While researching non-profit management jobs for a client and friend, he stumbled upon a job posting that would change his course. “I remember saying, ‘Oh let me take a look at Hospitality House’s website.’ And then I saw the position (of Director of Programs) and said, ‘Oh my God, that’s what I want!’”
As he has learned more about Hospitality House’s programs, Troy has been blown away by the kind of work the organization has done to strengthen our communities. “It’s totally thrown me for a loop in the most positive way. I’ve never worked for an organization where the staff is this passionate about what they do.” He attributes this passion to the peer-based staffing model, a cornerstone of the organization’s commitment to community resilience and empowerment. “The (agency’s) policies really represent the community and not the other way around. I’ve never seen core values this strong. All the policies are written with that in mind.”
Troy hopes to make his greatest impact by elevating others in his team of program managers and staff members with his support. From his experiences in technology, he would also like to bring in a “tech factor” to better tell our stories.
“I think Hospitality House is one of the best kept secrets. For me, it’s getting out there and letting people know who we are, what we do, and how we do it.”
Ivan Vera’s Lemon Grove Goodbye
Departing Community Arts Program Manager Ivan Vera admires the new rooftop lemon grove dedicated to him.
Ivan held a water hose close to the soil and watched as each freshly-potted lemon tree received its first drenching. “We need to make sure we come up with a watering schedule.” Ivan thought out loud.
Two months ago, five lemon trees were brought to the rooftop of Hospitality House’s Leavenworth Street site as part of a community project between the agency and the Demonstration Gardens of UC Hastings — a plan that Ivan coordinated with Kasey Asberry, the Sustainability Director at UC Hastings. [Listen to an interview with Kasey below.]
Youth volunteers from the Demonstration Gardens and Hospitality House staff had gathered on the rooftop to help repot each tree. Little did Ivan know, the gathering also served another purpose — the new lemon grove was to be dedicated to him as a farewell gesture of gratitude.
After seven years as the manager of the Community Arts Program (CAP), Ivan felt it was time to begin a new adventure in his life and go after things he’s always yearned to experience. “In the course of my own personal growth, this was a chapter that needed to happen.” The lemon grove dedication was taking place the day before he was leaving San Francisco for the balmy desert of Palm Springs.
Executive Director Jackie Jenks presents a wooden plaque dedicating “Ivan Vera’s Grove”
BLOSSOMING
Ivan was introduced to Hospitality House after helping his close friend, Daniel Hlad – then the Development Director, with the agency’s annual art auction. When Ivan offered feedback about the event, Daniel realized he could be a great fit to manage the CAP. At the time, Ivan was studying to become a nurse after spending years as an art gallery professional in New York and San Francisco. Daniel convinced him to apply for the position.
Ivan originally ran the program when the CAP studio was located in what is now the Tenderloin Self-Help Center on Leavenworth Street. In 2010, plans to rehabilitate the Leavenworth building moved the CAP to a street-level storefront space on Market Street near 6th Street right below the popular Luggage Store Gallery. Ivan credits this move to the blossoming of the program.
“(The move) helped us land on the map. It gave us visibility,” Ivan recalls. The entrance of the new studio was flanked by two exhibition windows. “When you have two amazing windows on Market Street, it gave us the visibility of a real gallery. I was able to inspire all the artists to take their professionalism to a much richer level.” This really helped individual artist blossom with the program.
The new location also gave Ivan an opportunity to build relationships within the burgeoning Mid-Market neighborhood, including the Luggage Store gallery and the various tech companies that began to line the once deteriorating street. He embraced the role of ambassador for not only the CAP, but for the entire agency. Increasing the visibility of Hospitality House is one of his proudest achievements.
Ivan pictured in a story on sfgate.com dated Nov. 2013
“We were able to build partnerships and do quite a few different projects.” The projects were not limited to the making of fine, visual arts. The CAP, along with the agency’s Community Building Program collaborated on various projects including a field trip to the Ai Wei Wei art exhibit on Alcatraz and performance projects with the American Conservatory Theater, the Center for New Music, the Contemporary Music Players, Archive Productions, and Urbanstreet Films. During these projects, Ivan witnessed the power of storytelling and how speaking about personal traumas helped with confronting them. “People were able to not only speak about their trauma, they were able to perform it, share it, and turn it around.”
FAITH RESTORED
Ivan is extremely thankful for his years at Hospitality House and attributes the integrity of the leadership for sharpening his focus and learning to say “thank you, but no thank you” to certain projects that did not necessarily align with the mission of the agency. His experience with the CAP also restored his faith in art. After working several years in some of the top New York galleries, he grew tired of the commodification of art.
“I was able to go to the opposite end of the spectrum where art was being created because it’s inherent, it’s a human right, it’s the most basic way of expressing. Art is free. Art is something that’s for everybody.”
The Demonstration Gardens: A Conversation with Kasey Asberry
The Demonstration Gardens is an environmental literacy and advocacy program that began in 2008-09. Located between Larkin and Hyde on Golden Gate Avenue as part of the UC Hastings of Law campus, the gardens are sunken outdoors and span 11,000 square feet. There are also indoor studios where visitors and participants of the program can further explore the natural world through expressive arts. Although it is not a public park, the gardens do have open hours to the public where anyone can drop-in and participate in the programming free-of-charge.
“We have been developing a series of projects that expand the green-ness of our neighborhood,“ said Kasey Asberry, the Demonstration Gardens’ Director. “We’re working to cultivate community around gardening by providing skills and support, and by accompanying people who want to make their neighborhood greener.”
Kasey Asberry, LRCP Sustainability Director for UC Hastings and founder of the Demonstration Gardens in the Tenderloin
The 50 Lemon Trees Project
After a donor provided the project with fifty lemon trees, Kasey plans to distribute them in groups of five to various community organizations. The vision is to create small orchards or lemon groves throughout the neighborhood. So far, fifteen trees have been placed in communities including the Hamilton Family Center, the Celebration Gardens at Boedekker Park, and as mentioned earlier, the rooftop of Hospitality House’s site on Leavenworth Street.
“One thing that I’m enjoying the most about this project, an unexpected consequence, is that as we build the community around the individual orchards, the community around all of the orchards is growing. I’ve been seeing this emergence of people wanting to know each other and wanting to work together. We don’t plant one lemon tree, because fruit trees need each other. Humans are the same way.”
Program Managers David McKinley (left) and Joe Wilson (center) get down and dirty with a Meyer Lemon tree.
[Listen to the full interview with Kasey Asberry below. For more information on the Demonstration Gardens, check out their website at www.demonstration-gardens.org. Don’t miss their birthday celebration on January 6, 2017, 4:30PM to 8PM at 333 Golden Gate Avenue.]
Needless to say, 2016 has been an eventful year for everyone. An election gone awry has induced fear and anxiety among our immigrant communities, due to the anti-immigration and xenophobic rhetoric of the nation’s incoming administration.
“Right after the election, there was a lot of fear and there still is about people not knowing what’s going to happen next, in the community and particularly in the Tenderloin,” said Jose Bernal, Hospitality House’s Shelter Program Manager, “I felt it. I heard it. I saw it. I walk into a restaurant; I walk into a laundromat. People are just afraid. They’re scared. A lot of family members of mine ask me questions like, ‘What’s going to happen?’”
Jose felt a need to help ease the fears by bringing together the nearby immigrant community and somehow arming them with knowledge of their constitutional rights. He discussed the idea with Hospitality House’s Deputy Director of Programs, Joe Wilson. They came up with an impromptu event, “Know Your Rights,” which would offer a platform for residents to voice their anxieties. The event would also feature an immigration attorney who could answer questions about basic immigrant rights.
Shelter Program Manager Jose Bernal
Search for Counsel
Jose immediately made phone calls looking for an attorney who would speak pro-bono at a community event on short notice. He called a prominent lecturer from Stanford University he knew. Unfortunately, since the event was scheduled so close to the Thanksgiving holiday, most of his contacts were on vacation. He was not discouraged.
“One of the most memorable things that I’ll remember is when I thought we weren’t going to have an attorney. So I said (to myself) that maybe we’ll just have a community discussion. The goal was to show the community that we’re here for you. We’re in this together, in solidarity. I wanted to make sure people feel they are not alone,” explained Jose. “But then Joe said, ‘I got your back, Jose. I’ll get you an attorney!’”
Attorney Amanda Alvarado Ford of La Raza Centro Legal informs community members about their immigrant rights.
Joe called Amanda Alvarado Ford, an attorney who has worked pro bono with the Immigration Unit of La Raza Centro Legal since 2012. She obliged. Joe also reached out to his vast network of community organizations like La Voz to spread the word about the event.
Knocking at the door
The event was scheduled to take place at 290 Turk Street after regular operating hours when Hospitality House’s programs were normally closed. Jose wondered if the short notice or perhaps, the bustle of the holidays, would deter people from attending.
“I was wondering if people were going to show up, but we had mothers knocking on our door, literally. I thought to myself, there is a need!” Before long, the room was packed with people from various communities, educating themselves about their rights as immigrants and asking questions to allay fears.
Mothers from the neighborhood brought their children, which prompted staff to create a pop-up daycare center in the backroom. About a half-dozen children played games and drew pictures with crayons as their parents listen to the lecture in the front room.
“I appreciate the community that came out. People we wanted to reach were there, people who don’t otherwise access our service,” Jose beamed. “It’s inspiring to see folks come out.”
For more information on the next “Know Your Rights” event hosted by PODER on January 9th at 290 Turk Street, please contact Jose Bernal at jbernal@hospitalityhouse.org
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Hotel Casa Statue
by webmaster | Jan 20, 2018 | Best Budget Hotel Vadodara, Budget Hotels, Casa blog, Hotel near Railway station Vadodara | 0 comments
Vadodara is the cultural capital of Gujarat. Known as Sanskari Nagri, the city has upheld cultural values & tradition as the heritage of the Gujarat state. The city is steeped in art and culture and one can see many cultural icons around the city symbolic of art as well as the symbol of respect. The city of Vadodara has many remarkable statues in and around the city and they all have interesting stories behind it. Hotel Casa takes you on a guided tour of wonderful statues in Vadodara.The most well-known statue in Vadodara is that of Lord Shiva in the middle of Sursagar Lake in the heart of the city. The 120 feet tall statue of Sarveshwar Mahadev in standing posture built by Vadodara Mahanagar Seva Sadan (VMSS) was installed in 2002. Sursagar Lake, formerly known as Chandan Talao, is looked for boating purposes and looks extremely beautiful particularly on moonlit nights. The statue of Sarveshwar Mahadev is decorated with lights on Mahashivratri, Ganesh Utsav & many other festivals.
There might not be any city in Gujarat which would not have a statue of the Father of the Nation installed publicly. Vadodara has the statue of Gandhiji installed in front of the townhall named after him. Mahatma Gandhinagar Gruh was constructed in 1954 with the statue of Gandhiji standing in the compound. The statue was made by H.K Doring and gifted by Vadodara City Mahatma Gandhi Statue Committee. It was inaugurated on 16th November 1954 by Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the then President of India.
The Shivaji statue in Vadodara has an interesting story behind it. There was no statue of Shivaji installed anywhere in the 1930s. Chhatrapati Raja Shahu Maharaj in 1930’s decided to give the order for the statue to the artist who completes the job fastest. Two artists had been selected by their own standing but both wanted to make the artwork in their own style so they had no other choice but to give them both a chance. Mhatre and his son Shyam Rao were from Mumbai and went about making the statue with sand casting technique which gives more finish to the work in Astadhatu metal mix, while Karmarkarji from Savane Alibaug had an original idea to cast it in a single go because he wanted to finish it fast and win the coveted prize and status of the royal artists whose creation would be installed in the heart of Pune city – the ‘capital’ of Maharashtrian culture. He won the race but the Matres’ were devastated as they had sold off whatever they had to mold the artwork with more finish than others but a bit late!
Maharaja Sayaji Rao, of Baroda state, got to know about this and immediately offered to buy the statue.His timely help elated the artists and they installed the statue inside the KAMATI BAUG, a park in the center of the city of Baroda. It became a part of the diamond jubilee celebrations of the king’s rule then.Hotel Casa Statue is a fine piece of art and appreciated for the craft till date.
The very popular Kalaghoda statue or the Equestrian statue in Vadodara is in respect of Vadodara’s erstwhile ruler Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad. The statue shows him seated on a horse’s back is situated near Sayajibaug (kamatibaug) main entrance. The statue of vigorous bronze was made by F Drewett Wood & it cost Rs. 60,000 and was raised by the subjects and admirers of Maharaja Sayajirao III in token of the loyalty and appreciation of his ever progressive rule. On 17th March 1907, Maharaja Holkar of Indore visited Vadodara (Baroda) and unveiled the statue. Hotel Casa Statue was erected by public subscription in commemoration of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad’s 50th Birthday. The Statue is known as Kala Ghoda as of Black Horse. The horse’s 2 legs are in the air, one on the left side at Front and another one at right side at Rear.
Gujarat is in the limelight for it’s much talked about Statue of Unity. The Statue of Unity is an iconic 182-meter tall landmark statue dedicated to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a visionary leader and statesman hailed as the Iron Man of India, due to his pivotal role in the country’s struggle for independence and subsequent integration. Post completion in 2018, the Statue of Unity will be the world’s tallest statue. For this project, Modi had a launched a nationwide farm tool collection drive symbolic of “unifying the country.”Additionally, a viewing gallery at around 500 feet will provide visitors a spectacular view of the Sardar Sarovar dam and its environs. A special purpose vehicle established by the government of Gujarat for the construction of the statue, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Rashtriya Ekta Trust (SVPRET), is developing the Statue of Unity project in the area surrounding the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the Narmada district of Gujarat. Through this project, the government intends to promote inclusive and equitable socio-economic growth in the region with tourism development as the key tool. This involves the development of multiple tourist attractions in the region coupled with infrastructure creation for the promotion of education, research, health, rural and tribal development.
And there are many other statues in the city like Bhagat Singh’s statue opposite Lal Court, a statue of Khanderao Gaekwad at Khanderao market, a statue of Maharana Pratap Singh at Pratapgunj circle, many statues in the Laxmi Vilas Palace premises and many others in Sayajibaug. And all these statues in Vadodara can be witnessed when you come & stay in Vadodara. While you are here, there is a budget hotel with three-star property facilities that can be a very good recommendation for a stay. The low budget Hotel Casa in Fatehgunj area, very near to many statues, offers all amenities & facilities of a luxury hotel but at pocket-friendly rates. The affordable rates make it the preferred choice for many businessmen. The Privilege Membership program at Hotel Casa has many takers while the proximity to Railway station, bus terminal & airport is the added advantage to the best budget hotel in Vadodara
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Top 11 free expat-friendly events in the Netherlands
07 July 2018 , by Rachel Deloughry
As the warm weather hits, many of us become more sociable and enjoy going to events more than ever. Although there are plenty of events on every day, they can be expensive when you add them all up, so it's also tempting to just sit in the park for free and enjoy the great weather and vibrant atmosphere!
Throughout the year, whatever the weather, there are many events and festivals to attend for free in the Netherlands. It's always useful to have some events in mind that won't burn a hole in your pocket.
Expat events you can attend for free
Here are some great events in the Netherlands that are both ideal for expats and you can go to for free!
Amsterdam Pride (July / August)
The internationally renowned Amsterdam Pride returns to the Amsterdam for nine days of street festivals that you can attend completely for free, parties, films, exhibitions, debates and of course the Canal Parade! On Saturday July 28, the Vondelpark will be filled with activities like a rainbow market, sports workshops and performances.
Before Pride Park starts, the Pride Walk will begin by the "Homomonument" at the Westerkerk, and march to the park for the event’s official opening.
Edam Cheese Market (July / August)
Cheese is probably the most popular Dutch food that there is. The cheese itself may cost a pretty penny, but witnessing these age-old traditions is utterly priceless!
The Edam cheese market operates on Wednesdays in July and August! Tradition is preserved at the Edam cheese market, from horse-drawn cheese carts to old bargaining rituals. After a history spanning from 1680 until 1922, the Edam cheese market was revived in 1989 in cooperation with over 90 volunteers and is now going strong each summer.
The cheese market is now a major tourist event in the cosy and authentic town of Edam. Besides the spectacle of cheese carriers and merchants practising their trade, it is also host to an old Dutch street organ and the Edam cheese chapel.
Cheese Market Alkmaar (March to September)
Although Edam cheese is famous, the Alkmaar Cheese Market is an even more world-famous tourist attraction. It has been around since at least 1593. This market, packed with cheese, cheese-hauling carriers, scales and traditional dress, is a rare sight to behold.
Inside the monumental Waaghuis (Weigh house), in the centre of Alkmaar, you’ll find the Dutch Cheese Museum. The history of Dutch cheese making, trading and farming culture can be explored in this special location. Amongst the things on display, you can find historical artefacts, utensils, film and paintings from as early as the 16th century.
Floating Flower Parade (August)
For three days in August every year, around half a million visitors gather to admire this spectacle on the water. Floating parades of boats adorned with flowers sail on the waters of South Holland, passing by places like The Hague, Delft and Vlaardingen.
The Floating Flower Parade (Varend Corso) is a dazzling affair in which more than 50 boats are decorated with not only 450.000 flowers, but also 120.000 other plants and 80.000 fruits and vegetables. More specifically, flowers include roses, chrysanthemums, sunflowers, orchids, dahlias and more. There are also 36.000 bell peppers, 15.000 tomato vines and 30.000 exotic fruits in use.
International Fireworks Festival Scheveningen (August)
The 39th edition of the famous International Fireworks Festival Scheveningen is nearly fired up and ready to go! Enjoy the mesmerising spectacle of a multitude of colours and shapes filling the night skies over the coastal resort of Scheveningen for two weekends during the International Fireworks Festival Scheveningen!
The organisers of the festival invite production teams from around the world to light up the sky and compete in the art of fireworks. Each evening of the festival, two firework displays take place, one at 9.45pm and the other at 10.30pm.
Prince’s Day (September)
Prince’s Day (Prinsjesdag) marks the opening of the Dutch parliamentary season, and it comes paired with the gorgeous Glass Carriage, the Dutch King’s address to the Dutch government and many rituals and festivities in The Hague, the political centre of the Netherlands.
Expect music everywhere, military demonstrations, lots of theatre, museums with special programmes and access to significant buildings that are usually closed to the public.
One of the most emblematic events of the day is the tour that the Dutch monarchs traditionally make with the Golden Carriage (Gouden Koets) from Noordeinde Palace to the Ridderzaal of the Binnenhof. Due to restorations, the following years will see a "Glass Carriage" instead. This was built in 1826.
Departing at 1pm and always televised, the carriage brings select members of the Dutch Royal Family along a one kilometre route through The Hague in a procession that features prominent members of the military and high ranking officials. Lining the route are orchestras and, of course, spectators fascinated by the traditional procession.
Flower Parade of the Bulb Region (April)
The Flower Parade of the Bulb Region (Bollenstreek) welcomes thousands of visitors to enjoy the dazzling flower and bulb celebration.
The Bulb Region surrounds Leiden, The Hague and Haarlem and the climate and soil there has been perfect for bulb cultivation over the centuries. The parade features a remarkable variety of tulips and other flowers.
When the flowers are in bloom, the fields of the Bulb Region are arguably the most colourful in the world! If you’re lucky, you can catch a glimpse of the flowers from the train. But it’s even better if you attend the parade in one of the key locations on the flower route.
King's Day (April)
On King’s Day, the cities fill with outdoor parties and activities, turning the whole of the Netherlands into the biggest street festival of the year to celebrate the birthday of King Willem Alexander. People head out to celebrate, play music, make use of the temporary lift on sales permits by selling their goods, dress up and have a blast.
The Amsterdam vrijmarkt (free market) starts at 6am. Interesting areas to check out include the Pijp, Beethovenstraat, the Olympic Stadium, Amstelveld, Noordermarkt, Westerpark, the Jordaan and the DSM Vrijhaven. The Marie Heinekenplein will be also filled with local entrepreneurs offering drinks and snacks.
Five of the most active King’s Day cities are Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, Utrecht and Eindhoven. Check out how they will be celebrating on April 27!
Tulip Festival of the North East Polder (April / May)
If you can’t get enough of the bright, mesmerising sight of tulips, then the Tulip Festival of the North East Polder is for you. This reclaimed land in Flevoland is utterly breath-taking.
The land is more than four metres below sea level and was only reclaimed from the Zuiderzee in the 20th century. In such a short time, it has quickly become one of the go-to places during tulip season. As well as endless amounts of tulip fields, there are also stunning villages and gardens to visit along the route.
Remembrance Day and Liberation Day (May)
Remembrance Day and Liberation Day began as memorial days specifically for those killed in World War II, but since 1961 they have also paid tribute to victims of other military conflicts and peacekeeping missions. On May 4 (Remembrance Day) there is a two-minute silence at 8pm every year, which is an important thing to keep in mind if you think you might be in a public place at that time. Public transport and other traffic will stop at this time.
Liberation Day takes place the day after Remembrance Day, celebrating the freedom of the Netherlands from Nazi occupation after World War II with big free public events, namely pop festivals. These Liberation Day pop festivals are massive and occur in famous parks in various Dutch cities, for example Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, Malieveld in The Hague and Transwijk Park in Utrecht.
Parkpop (June)
Parkpop, held annually on the last Sunday of June, is the largest free pop event in the Netherlands. Since 1981, this national pop festival has put The Hague on the map in terms of large scale free music festivals. It was even the largest free pop music festival in all of Europe for many years! This year, over 350.000 people are expected to attend.
Enjoy some fun events for free in the Netherlands
Who knew enjoying yourself at some of the most beloved events in the Netherlands could happen for free? Of course, transport, food and drink will have to be factored in, but nevertheless, with the free entry you can have a memorable time without spending much. Sign up for the IamExpat newsletter to stay up to date on the free events and festivals taking place throughout the year.
Rachel Deloughry
Rachel is a writer, editor and digital content creator, passionate about the arts, culture and lifestyle.
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Oscar Pistorius Verdict: Who is Judge Thokozile Masipa, the Woman Holding Blade Runner\'s Fate in her Hands?
By Hannah Osborne
Judge Thokozile Masipa delivering her verdict. Reuters
The verdict at Oscar Pistorius' murder trial is due imminently, with one woman deciding the fate of the Paralympian athlete who shot dead his model girlfriend at his home last Valentine's Day.
Judge Thokozile Masipa is a 66-year-old woman serving at the Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa.
During Pistorius' six-month trial, Masipa has remained neutral, giving no indication to how she will rule. She is believed to have 100 pages of notes explaining her decision – which is expected to be announced either today or tomorrow.
Born in Soweto, Johannesburg she graduated high school in 1966 and went on to gain a BA degree in social work, having been inspired by her mother, a teacher. She was one of 10 children and grew up in a two bedroom house, where she would bury herself in her books.
Before becoming a judge, she worked as a social worker and crime reporter, sparking her interest in the legal system. She reported about the apartheid struggle, schools, education and poor working conditions.
Masipa became the second black woman to be appointed as a judge in the High Court of South Africa in 1998 – an impressive feat in a nation that was at the time overcoming an apartheid era and opposition to women's rights.
Oscar Pistorius in tears at the verdict of his murder trial. Reuters
Supported by her husband, she studied law part time, funding her education through her journalism work. It eventually took her 10 years to qualify.
Previously, she has spoken about the difficulty of being a woman in South Africa's legal system: "It is a tough place to be, because for a long time it was only men who sat here, and in our culture it's even tougher, because some men are just not used to seeing women giving orders. But one gets used to it. It's not you as a woman who's there – it's the position that you fill. So you just get on with it."
Masipa quickly earned a reputation for taking a tough stance on criminals, in particular the perpetrators of domestic violence and rape. In 2001, after sentencing two men for rape, she said violence against women and children was raising at an alarming rate across the country.
In 2009, she jailed Freddy Mashamba, a policeman who murdered his wife during an argument about their divorce, for life: "No one is above the law. You deserve to go to jail for life because you are not a protector. You are a killer," she said.
Last year, she made headlines worldwide when she sentenced Shepherd Moyo to 252 years in jail. Moyo, a house robber, had raped three women. In her ruling, she said the women had been left traumatised, and that having shown no remorse for his crimes, there was little chance of rehabilitation.
"The worst in my view is that he attacked and raped the victims in their own homes where they thought they were safe," Masipa ruled.
Pistorius' family has said they are willing to accept whatever judgment Masipa gives: "We are confident by the thoroughness and detail of this judgment and Judge Masipa's commitment using every avenue to ensure a fair trial," his uncle Arnold Pistorius has said in the past.
While Pistorius has been found not guilty of pre-meditated murder, he could still face many years behind bars.
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Although it doesn’t start until July 16, Amazon Prime Day has already kicked off
Bryan M. Wolfe on July 3, 2018
This year’s Amazon Prime Day doesn’t kick off until Monday, July 16 beginning at 12:01 p.m. PDT. But let’s be honest here, the event has already started as some deals are now online with many more coming between now and the event’s official start.
Amazon Prime Day 2018 will be held for a record 36 hours in a row and offer one million deals exclusively for Prime members around the world. This year’s event will be held in 17 countries, including in the U.S., U.K., Spain, Mexico, Japan, India, Italy, Germany, France, China, Canada, Belgium, Austria and – new this year – Australia, Singapore, Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
There are also select deals being offered at all U.S. Whole Food Market stores.
What’s on sale? This year, the mega-site is focusing on offering deals across TVs, smart home, kitchen, grocery, toys, fashion, furniture, appliances, and back-to-school supplies. Everyday essentials will also be discounted. Prime Day will also feature double the deals on Amazon devices, including Alexa-enabled products like Echo, Fire TV, and Fire tablets, in addition to new categories from home security to Echo devices with screens.
According to Jeff Wilke, Amazon CEO Worldwide Consumer:
New this year, members can shop exclusive Prime Day Launches from hundreds of brands worldwide, enjoy exclusive savings at Whole Foods Market and experience surprise entertainment events unboxed from giant Smile boxes in major cities. More than 100 million paid Prime members around the world will find our best Prime Day celebration yet.
First held in 2015, Amazon Prime Day has steadily grown over the years both in the number of countries where it is held and the number of items available at discounted rates. Though the biggest deals are reserved for the actual event, your best bet is to be on the lookout for deals every day beginning right now.
For example, Amazon is already offering the Echo Show for $100 off and dropping the prices on Amazon Brands items such as 25 percent off furniture and 20 percent off AmazonBasic items. You’ll also find 50 percent off discounts on popular movies and TV shows on digital, DVD, and Blu-Ray.
What kind of deals are you hoping to see this year? Let us know below.
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Why and How to Build an Enterprise App Store
Enterprise app stores provide a single "shopping experience" for employees and support both a BYOD model and a self-service IT model.
Using an enterprise app store allows businesses to feel confident that apps are being deployed in a controlled manner, says Kawasaki. Since employees need to use their company credentials before installing apps, IT administrators have a stronger sense of security than they would if apps were posted publicly or available on a website. Apps should also be well-vetted before they are added to the enterprise app store to reduce the risks of vulnerabilities. Finally, because they are managed internally, upgrades and patches can be easily and regularly applied.
A growing number of companies are creating their own enterprise app stores. According to Kia Behnia, CEO of PowWow Mobile, enterprise app stores provide a single "shopping experience" for their employees to download business apps and content. Also, they support both a BYOD model and a "self-service" IT model where the employees are presented with a set of business applications and content based on the role of the user. The applications offered are usually a combination of internal and commercial applications, which may be vetted and linked from a public app store. Some companies have dedicated teams to develop, organize and manage the stores, while others leave it to the IT department.
Behnia believes there are two major steps in the app-store development process: The first is to create a list of applications that are appropriate for the store, establish entitlement and licensing, and categorize the apps and descriptions. The second is to establish the front-end catalog of items and a list of who has access to it. Here are some tips on how to get your enterprise app store up and running and the benefits of having one.
Sue Marquette Poremba has been writing about network security since 2008. In addition to her coverage of security issues for IT Business Edge, her security articles have been published at various sites such as Forbes, Midsize Insider and Tom's Guide. You can reach Sue via Twitter: @sueporemba
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Wales says 'Yes' in first results
Yes campaigners have celebrated the first victory of the day in the referendum on giving new law-making powers to the Welsh Assembly.
Blaenau Gwent voted "Yes" to the tune of 11,869, with the "No" vote trailing at 5,366 votes.
The positive outcome in the first of 22 county area results was quickly followed by Denbighshire, with 15,793 Yes votes against 9,734 for the No campaign.
The first result was declared at the Senedd in Cardiff just before midday, following the start of the count at around 9am.
Twenty more constituencies remain, with the running total so far being 27,662 in favour of more legislative powers for the Assembly and 15,108 against.
The figures are in keeping with the most recent YouGov poll, which predicted that Yes voters outnumbered their No counterparts by 2 to 1.
Turnout was announced as being 35.2% - a reduction of more than 20 percentage points compared with the 1997 referendum.
Following two further successes - in Wrexham and the Isle of Anglesey - at around 1.10pm on Friday, Say Yes For Wales described the signs as very encouraging.
Vice chair Lee Waters said: "We are pleased with the turnout, which is better than people had predicted and more than the last mayoral elections in London.
"I think we will be celebrating a Yes win tonight."
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Swedish ambassador to China investigated for security breaches in Gui Minhai case
22-Mar-2019 Intellasia | South China Morning Post | 6:00 AM
Swedish authorities said on Wednesday that the country’s ambassador to China was under criminal investigation for breaching national security, after she was called back to Stockholm amid reports of her role in arranging unauthorised meetings about the case of detained bookseller Gui Minhai.
Deputy Chief Prosecutor Hans Ihrman confirmed Swedish media reports that Anna Lindstedt was “under ongoing investigation” for the relevant national security crimes without further elaboration, the Swedish Prosecution Authority told the South China Morning Post in an email reply.
It was reported earlier that Lindstedt had been recalled from Beijing to meet with Swedish foreign ministry officials, and Stockholm later said it was conducting an internal investigation over her “incorrect action” connected to events occurring at the end of January.
Lindstedt was embroiled in a political storm after Angela Gui, the daughter of Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai, wrote in a public post on Medium on February 13 that the Swedish ambassador was involved in arranging an unauthorised meeting between her and unidentified Chinese businesspeople.
In the post, Gui said that Lindstedt had asked her to come to Stockholm on January 24 for “a new approach” to her father’s case, but ended up in a meeting with unnamed Chinese businesspeople who offered to help secure her father’s release. She said they threatened her to stop engaging with the media or it would damage Lindstedt’s career, and that she had to trust them or she would never see her father again.
When Gui later contacted Swedish foreign affairs officials, they told her that they were not aware of the meeting.
“I’m not going to be quiet in exchange for a visa and an arbitrary promise that my father ‘might’ be released,” Gui wrote in her public post, calling the meeting “a government official’s rogue operation”.
“Threats, verbal abuse, bribes, or flattery won’t change that,” she wrote.
The Swedish embassy in Beijing declined to comment on Lindstedt’s case on Wednesday, saying that the investigation was active. The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Swedish Police Authority also declined to comment.
Gui Minhai, a Chinese-born naturalised Swedish citizen, was one of five Hong Kong-based booksellers who disappeared in late 2015 but resurfaced later in mainland China. The affair saw the associates, all from the Causeway Bay Bookstore and Mighty Current Publishing House which published salacious books about the lives of past and current Chinese leaders vanish from Thailand, Hong Kong and mainland China.
It was later revealed that all five were investigated for their alleged “illegal business” of selling banned books through underground channels to buyers on the mainland.
Gui, owner of the bookstore and publishing house, was released in October 2017 after serving a two-year sentence for a drink-driving offence from 2003. He was arrested again three months later on a train to Beijing, when he was accompanied by two Swedish diplomats, on charges of leaking state secrets abroad.
Sweden has condemned the way Beijing has handled Gui’s case, and demanded that the bookseller be released and reunited with his family immediately. China, however, has insisted that it has handled the case “in accordance with the law”.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/swedish-ambassador-china-investigated-security-134859131.html
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A crucial part of IPA's mission is to inform member associations and the wider global publishing community about breaking developments which will impact publishers. We do this through a number of channels. the IPA website, our monthly e-newsletter, press releases and the IPA's dedicated social media feeds.
Khaled Lutfi awarded 2019 IPA Prix Voltaire
Imprisoned Egyptian publisher Khaled Lutfi has been selected for International Publishers Association’s 2019 Prix Voltaire which supports defenders of freedom to publish.
Kristenn Einarsson, Chair of the IPA’s Freedom to Publish Committee said: “The international publishing community stands with Khaled Lutfi. We must support Lutfi’s fellow publishers in Egypt so that his imprisonment does not lead to fear and self-censorship in a country of such rich literary heritage.”
José Borghino, IPA Secretary General added: “IPA calls on President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to grant Khaled Lutfi a presidential pardon.”
On February 4, Khalid Lutfi (also written Lotfy), founder of Cairo’s Tanmia Bookshop and Publishing, was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of divulging military secrets and spreading rumors for having distributed an Arabic translation of the book The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel, by Uri Bar-Joseph. The case started when Tanmia’s founder signed an agreement with Arab Scientific Publishers to publish an Egyptian edition of the book.
Tanmia Bookshop opened in 2011 and later spawned a highly respected publishing house. The publishing house brought out a number of acclaimed authors in translation. Tanmia also published original works in Arabic, including a children’s book version of Mahmoud Darwish’s poem “Think of Others,” which won an Etisalat Prize for Arabic Children’s Literature.
The IPA Freedom to Publish Committee’s decision to award the 2019 IPA Prix Voltaire to Khaled Lutfi honours his bravery in publishing despite the risks involved.
The presentation of the 2019 IPA Prix Voltaire will take place on 21 June 2019 Seoul International Book Fair.
About the IPA Prix Voltaire
The IPA Prix Voltaire is unique in honouring the freedom to publish, without which many forms of freedom of expression would be impossible. Publishers who provide authors with the tools to disseminate their written ideas assume the same risks as the writers themselves.
Nominees have usually published controversial works amid pressure, threats, intimidation or harassment, be it from governments, other authorities or private interests. Alternatively, they may be publishers with a distinguished record of upholding the values of freedom to publish and freedom of expression. For the purposes of the IPA Prix Voltaire, the definition of ‘publisher’ is an individual, collective or organization that provides others with the means to share their ideas in written form, including via digital platforms.
The IPA Prix Voltaire, which comes with a CHF 10,000 prize, is made possible by generous contributions from sponsors, all of which are publishing houses and organizations that share the values that the IPA Prix Voltaire recognizes.
The sponsors of the 2019 IPA Prix Voltaire are, in alphabetical order:
Albert Bonniers Förlag (Sweden)
Aschehoug (Norway)
Bonnier Media Deutschland (Germany)
Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (Germany)
Cappelen Damm (Norway)
Gyldendal (Norway)
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Germany)
Natur & Kultur (Sweden)
Norstedts (Sweden)
Verlagsgruppe Random House (Germany)
Storytel (Sweden)
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Diversity and Inclusion comes in many different shapes and colors and this month, Pride month in many countries, the focus will be on LGBTI+, or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex, where the plus denotes all other groups in an overall i...
Inclusion & Diversity: An interview with Stephen Lotinga, CEO, Publishers Association (UK)
Arguably a forerunner in making progress on the topic of inclusion and diversity, the UK Publishers Association began their journey with a landmark report on the diversity of the UK publishing industry in 2017. They have just released their findings ...
Anne Bergman-Tahon
EU copyright modernised: Was it easy?
558 days after it was proposed by the European Commission on 15 September 2016, the Members of the European Parliament adopted on Tuesday 26 March, the compromise text on copyright in the digital single market (the market we all share as Europeans th...
WIPO Diary (SCCR 37) Day 5: The Final Hurrah
Friday at SCCR 38 was for “other matters” – copyright in the digital environment, resale right and theatre directors.
WIPO Diary (SCCR 38) Day 4: Typologies galore
Following Wednesday’s jam-packed day of presentations and side-events, you could feel a drop in energy in the chamber today as a number of reports were presented.
WIPO Diary (SCCR 38) Day 3 – Exceptions, exceptions, exceptions (and limitations)
Wednesday morning, before the start of the WIPO plenary session, IPA had two important meetings. Firstly, we were invited to take part in a regular briefing that the US delegation offers particular stakeholders at every SCCR. Secondly, IPA then met w...
WIPO Diary (SCCR38) Day 2: An informal day in the chamber but buzzing around it
The second day of the 38th session of the WIPO SCCR, began with the regular meeting the IPA organizes on Tuesday morning for the representatives of the Creative Sector Organisations Group that we coordinate. On the 13th floor...
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DEFINITION of Canadian Income Trust
A Canadian Income Trust is an investment fund that holds income producing assets and distributes payments to unitholders, or shareholders, on a regular periodic basis. Distributions are usually made quarterly or monthly. The Canadian Income Trust must distribute a minimum of 90% of its net cash flows. Tax advantages to investing in a Canadian Income Trust include advantages to both the investor and the entity itself. The investor receives a portion of the periodic payment as a return of capital and a portion as a taxable distribution. The trust entity distributes most of its cash to shareholders or unitholders, leaving little left retained by the entity, so there is little left to tax. The trust pays out most of the earnings to unit holders before paying taxes, and is usually traded publicly on a securities exchange.
BREAKING DOWN Canadian Income Trust
Canadian income trusts are a beneficial corporate structure alternative for firms due to lower tax liabilities. Before the profit is taxed, an income trust passes a high percentage of earnings to unit holders as cash distributions. If, once expenses have been covered, all of a firm's remaining cash is paid out to unit holders, the firm is able to entirely avoid paying income tax. This was stopped by January of 2011 for income trusts with the exception of real estate investment trusts (REITs).
Halloween Massacre
The Halloween Massacre refers to Canada's 2006 decision to tax all income trusts domiciled in Canada.
Low-risk, Tax-Free: Is a Master Limited Partnership – MLP For Real?
A master limited partnership (MLP) is a business venture that exists in the form of a publicly traded limited partnership. It combines the tax benefits of a partnership with the liquidity of a public company.
Owning Property Via a Real Estate Investment Trust
A real estate investment trust (REIT) is a publicly traded company that owns, operates or finances income-producing properties. REITS come in several different varieties, each having its particular rewards and risks for investors.
Understanding Limited Partnership Units (LPUs)
A limited partnership unit (LPU) is an ownership unit in a publicly traded limited partnership, or master limited partnership (MLP).
Income Trust
An income trust is an investment trust that holds income-producing assets.
Cash Distribution Per Unit (CDPU)
Cash distribution per unit is a measure that refers to the amount of cash payments made to individual unitholders of a specified income trust.
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Grace Wilson Tolley
• Updated Feb 11, 2017 at 11:23 AM
ERWIN - Grace Wilson Tolley, age 74, of Erwin, passed away on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at her home. A native of Yancey County, NC, she was a daughter of the late Arthur Wilson and Bonnie Whitson Wilson. She was a member of Chestoa Missionary Baptist Church. She retired after 32 years’ service as a seamstress at the former Red Cap Inc. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by 7 brothers.
Grace Wilson Tolley has left behind to cherish her memory: Several nieces and nephews including: Chris Wilson and Shawn Wilson and his wife Laura, all of Erwin, Sisters-in-law: Aundria Wilson, who was also her best friend; Linda Sproles of Unicoi; Kate Wilson of Burnsville, NC; Marie Wilson of SC.
The family respectfully requests the honor of your presence as we offer tribute and remember the life of Grace Wilson Tolley in a graveside committal service that will be held at 2:00 PM, Monday, February 13, 2017, in the Mausoleum Chapel of Evergreen Cemetery with Reverend E. L. Wheeler officiating. Vocal selections will be provided by Queenie Wheeler. Those attending will meet at the Cemetery for the 2:00PM service.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations be made to Jericho Shrine Center, 1100 Jericho Dr, Kingsport, TN 37663
Condolences and memories may be shared with the family and viewed at www.valleyfuneralhome.net. These arrangements are made especially for the family and friends of Grace Wilson Tolley through Valley Funeral Home, 1085 N. Main Ave., Erwin, 423-743-9187.
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NYC to host ticker tape parade for soccer champs Wednesday
Posted: Tue 10:52 AM, Jul 09, 2019 |
Updated: Tue 11:17 AM, Jul 09, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — A ticker tape parade to shower the U.S. women's national soccer team with praise and paper confetti will start at 9:30 a.m. EDT in New York City on Wednesday.
The national women's soccer team lands at Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey after emerging victorious in the 2019 World Cup in France, Photo Date: 7/8/2019 / Source: Fox News / YouTube
It will be the city's first ticker tape parade since the team's Women's World Cup win in 2015.
The procession will move down the Canyon of Heroes, a section of Broadway between the Battery and City Hall in Manhattan. Large crowds are expected.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, will then give the players a symbolic key to the city. All tickets for the City Hall ceremony have now been issued.
The team has already started celebrating its record fourth Women's World Cup title. After touching down at Newark International Airport on Monday, players exchanged toasts over Champagne and sang "We Are the Champions."
Copyright 2019 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Posted: December 4, 2015
Kline & Specter led all law firms with the most large verdicts and settlements in Pennsylvania, according to the latest report by PaLaw released this week. Kline & Specter had five of the Top 50 – all five being jury verdicts – and with four results in the Top 25.
The largest verdict won by Kline & Specter was a $38.5 million punitive award in Wilson v. U.S. Security Associates in which the families of two victims of a fatal shooting rampage by a fired worker at Kraft Foods sued the company in charge of security at the plant in Northeast Philadelphia. Earlier, another jury awarded $8 million in compensatory damages.
The firm won two cases in Delaware County: a $21.8 million verdict in Delaware County, Pa., for a man who was left blind as the result of prolonged back surgery and a $7.4 million jury award for a man who suffered a stroke because of his doctor’s failure to properly treat his high blood pressure.
In a bellwether trial in the ongoing Risperdal litigation, Kline & Specter won a $2.5 million verdict for a young autistic Alabama man who was prescribed the anti-psychotic medication and suffered gynecomastia, an abnormal growth of breast tissue in males.
Of note was the fact that different lawyers from the firm handled the various cases, demonstrating the breadth of the firm, which has 40 lawyers, five of whom are also medical doctors. Shanin Specter was lead counsel in the Kraft shooting trials, David Caputo litigated the back surgery case and Andy Stern represented the stroke victim. Tom Kline is heading the continuing Risperdal litigation.
The PaLaw report covered cases concluded in Pennsylvania between Aug. 1, 2014 to July 31, 2015. (In the No. 1 spot was the federal government, specifically the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which obtained a $1.2 billion settlement against Cephalon Inc. in an antitrust case.)
Since July 31, Kline & Specter has won a litany of additional cases, including a $10.1 million verdict for a baby who suffered deafness and brain-related injuries after a delay in diagnosing and treating meningitis; a $15 million settlement for a woman who suffered permanent brain damage due to medical malpractice; and a $4.5 million verdict for a college student who lost his leg below the knee after he was struck by a bus in Pittsburgh.
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U.S. birth rate falls to lowest level in 32 years, CDC says
The CDC report show 3.79 million babies were born in the U.S. last year.
The report showed that birth rates declined for nearly all age groups of women younger than 35 but rose for women in their late 30s and early 40s.
May 15, 2019 at 1:53 PM CDT - Updated May 16 at 4:02 AM
(CNN) - Fewer babies were born in the U.S. last year than at any time in the past 32 years. That’s according to a report published Wednesday.
Preliminary numbers from the National Center for Health Statistics at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show the birth rate dropped two percent from 2017.
"Even though the number of births we've seen in 2018 is the lowest that we've seen in 32 years, the total fertility rate is at a record low," said Brady Hamilton, a natality expert at the center and first author of the report.
The biggest decrease was in teen mothers. The birth rate dropped 7 percent among women 15-19 years old.
It also dropped four percent among women ages 20-24, 3 percent for women 25-29 and 1 percent for moms 30-34.
The rate rose for women 35-44 years old and stayed the same for mothers 45 and older.
In all, about 3.8 million babies were born in the U.S. last year.
“These data provide the official statistics on birth for the United States,” Hamilton said. “The data allow you to monitor patterns, in terms of birth-related health issues for infants and mothers, such as cesarean delivery, preterm or low birth weight rates.”
The U.S. population is not producing enough babies to replace itself, but that's not new.
The fertility rate has generally been below its replacement value since 1971.
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Salk Researchers Halt The Progression Of Alzheimer’s In Very Old Mice
By David Wagner
Aired 5/14/13 on KPBS News
Researchers at the Salk Institute are making progress on a compound that they believe could potentially stop Alzheimer's disease in its tracks. To show just how promising their drug candidate is, they put it through unusually hard experiments.
Researchers at the Salk Institute are making progress on a compound that they believe could potentially stop the progression of Alzheimer's disease. No drug currently on the market can do that, so it's a bold claim. But by putting their compound through an especially rigorous experiment on lab mice, they've shown just how promising it is.
Marguerite Prior, the lead scientist behind J147, says the Alzheimer's drug candidate is ready for human clinical trials.
Marguerite Prior and her colleagues first published research on a compound called J147 in late 2011. The substance is derived from curcumin, found in the colorful Indian spice turmeric. They showed that J147 can improve multiple types of memory in mice with the disease. More significantly, they demonstrated that it could prevent synapses in the brain from disconnecting, effectively halting the disease.
The scientists are back with a follow-up study this week. This time, they made things even harder for themselves.
Prior says that before administering J147, "We aged the Alzheimer's mice to 20 months old, which is very old for an Alzheimer's mouse." The experimental design, outlined in a paper published today in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, separates this research from most of the work being done on Alzheimer's.
You might think that scientists would always use age-appropriate mice when studying an age-related disease like Alzheimer's. But you'd be wrong. Researchers typically experiment on young mice genetically engineered to acquire Alzheimer's later in life. That's not such a great model of how Alzhiemer's plays out in the real world. Unlike lab mice, people don't get Alzheimer's treatment before their symptoms show up.
That's why Prior waited for her mice to get old and exhibit memory problems before putting J147 in their food. Even at this advanced stage in the disease, the mice improved significantly. Prior says, "We found that J147 was able to reverse, even at that late stage in the disease, memory deficits."
David Schubert is the head of Salk's Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory, which has been working on a novel Alzheimer's drug candidate for years.
Prior's age-based methodology fits in well with David Schubert's lab at Salk. Schubert thinks that pharmaceutical companies have become too fixated on amyloid plaques when trying to discover new Alzheimer's drugs. It's no wonder that their drugs fail so often, according to Schubert. Just last week the results from a major study on Baxter International's Alzheimer's drug candidate Gammagard came back. It fared no better than a placebo.
Schubert's lab looks at Alzheimer's differently. ""We thought that another way to approach drug discovery was based on age, old age, rather than this amyloid pathway," says Schubert. "Alzheimer's should be looked at not as one causative agent, but as a whole cumulative spectrum of age-associated things that going wrong in the brain."
Prior and her co-authors didn't just look at how J147 affected progression of the disease. In a second experiment, they tested J147's memory-boosting properties against the most commonly prescribed Alzheimer's drug, Aricept. Like all Alzheimer's medications currently approved by the FDA, Aricept only adresses symptoms, not the disease itself. And it loses its effectiveness over time.
The Salk researchers staged the head-to-head comparison by putting mice through a water maze that tests spatial memory. Water-phobic mice will do their best to get to an elevated platform in the middle of this pool, and you can train them to remember where the platform is. But the mice in this experiment had been doped with scopolamine, a drug that impairs memory.
When the researchers removed the platform, they saw the J147-treated mice swim their way right to where the platform used to be. They remembered where it was, showing marked improvements in spatial memory compared to the mice who received only Aricept. These outcomes suggest that J-147 improves short-term and spatial memory, while Aricept only helps with the former.
Schubert says this research brings cause for optimism, but cautions that taking the next step will be a challenge. His lab is ready to submit an investigational new drug application with the FDA. But that process will cost $1.5 million, no small sum for a lab using unconventional methods in a post-sequestration funding landscape.
Prior hopes to begin human clinical trials soon. "We're ready," she says. "We're just trying to get the money together."
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Academy Showers ‘Rain Man’ With 8 Oscar Bids : ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ and ‘Mississippi Burning’ Get 7 Each
<i> Times Staff Writer</i>
MGM/UA’s “Rain Man” grabbed a narrow lead in the 61st Oscar race Wednesday with eight nominations, including Dustin Hoffman’s sixth best-actor nod for his portrayal of a numbers-crunching autistic savant on a cross-country trek with his hustler brother.
The popular “Rain Man"--which has grossed more than $100 million since its December premiere--also received nominations for best picture, directing, screenplay written directly for the screen, art direction, editing, original music and cinematography.
For the record:
12:00 AM, Feb. 18, 1989 For the Record
Los Angeles Times Saturday February 18, 1989 Home Edition Calendar Part 5 Page 9 Column 3 Entertainment Desk 2 inches; 45 words Type of Material: Correction
The Academy Award nominees for best achievement in sound effects-editing were omitted from a list of Oscar contenders in Thursday’s Calendar. The nominees are: Stephen H. Flick and Richard Shorr, “Die Hard"; Charles L. Campbell and Louis L. Edemann, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” and Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns, “Willow.”
Next among the top nominees were best-picture candidates “Dangerous Liaisons” from Warner Bros. and Orion’s “Mississippi Burning,” which received seven nominations each.
Fox’s “Working Girl,” with six nominations, and Warner’s “The Accidental Tourist,” with four nominations, rounded out the best picture slate. Disney’s hugely successful “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” received six nominations, but all were in technical categories, including art direction, cinematography, and sound.
Oscars are awarded following a vote by some 4,600 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The awards will be presented on March 29 at the Shrine Auditorium and the ceremonies will be broadcast on ABC.
In a major surprise, Martin Scorsese received a best director nomination for “The Last Temptation of Christ” (Universal) even though the iconoclastic film about Jesus Christ was widely criticized by some Christian groups and was virtually ignored in the Golden Globe, Directors Guild of America and other pre-Oscar awards.
Reached in New York, Scorsese said: “This a statement of support by (movie) directors for other directors who have a film they need to get made. . . . It’s what this country is all about.”
The film received mixed reviews and wasn’t nominated for an award by the directors’ guild, in which a sizable number of television directors join movie directors and others in voting. Scorsese has never won an Oscar, but was nominated for directing “Raging Bull” in 1980.
Other nominees for the best director Oscar--all of whom also received Directors Guild nominations--were Charles Crichton for “A Fish Called Wanda"; Alan Parker for “Mississippi Burning"; Barry Levinson for “Rain Man,” and Mike Nichols for “Working Girl.” Notably missing from the directors’ nominations was Clint Eastwood, who had won a Golden Globe award for directing “Bird,” which was released by Warner.
In a rare coup, Sigourney Weaver took dual nominations as best actress for her portrayal of murdered naturalist Dian Fossey in “Gorillas in the Mist” (Universal/Warner), and as best supporting actress for her comic role as an unscrupulous boss in “Working Girl.” According to the academy, only five performers have ever received two acting nominations in a single year. The last actress to receive dual nominations was Jessica Lange in 1982.
Other best actress nominees were Glenn Close, who played a manipulative seductress in the 18th-Century period piece “Dangerous Liaisons"; Jodie Foster, who played a rape victim in Paramount’s “The Accused"; Melanie Griffith, who played an ambitious secretary in “Working Girl,” and Meryl Streep, who played a mother falsely accused of murdering her child in Warner’s “A Cry in the Dark.”
In the best actor category, TV and stage actor Edward James Olmos received a dark-horse nomination for his portrayal of East Los Angeles mathematics teacher Jaime Escalante in Warner’s “Stand and Deliver.” Olmos and several friends had taken the unusual step of mounting their own Oscar campaign in the Hollywood trade press when Warner didn’t strongly push for its nomination.
Other best actor nominees were previous Oscar winner Gene Hackman, who played a Southern sheriff-turned-FBI agent in “Mississippi Burning,” and first-time nominees Tom Hanks, who played a boy trapped in a man’s body in Fox’s “Big,” and Max von Sydow, who played a long-suffering Swedish farm-hand in “Pelle the Conqueror,” a European-produced film that was distributed in the United States by Miramax Films.
In addition to Weaver, the best supporting actresses included first-time nominees Joan Cusack for “Working Girl"; Geena Davis for “The Accidental Tourist"; Frances McDormand for “Mississippi Burning,” and Michelle Pfeiffer for “Dangerous Liaisons.”
Best supporting actor nominees are two-time Oscar winner Alec Guinness for Cannon’s “Little Dorrit” and first-time nominees Kevin Kline for “A Fish Called Wanda"; Martin Landau for Paramount’s “Tucker: The Man and his Dream"; River Phoenix for Warner’s “Running on Empty,” and Dean Stockwell for Orion’s “Married to the Mob.”
Among the studios, Warner led the pack with 23 nominations. But its five nominations for “Gorillas in the Mist” were shared with Universal, which co-produced the picture, and its nine nominations for “Dangerous Liaisons” and “Running on Empty” came from films it acquired in its recent merger with Lorimar-Telepictures Corp.
Another big winner was MGM/UA, which received 13 nominations for “Rain Man,” “A Fish Called Wanda” and “Willow"--all of which were made by an executive team that left the studio amid financial reshuffling by the studio’s majority owner, Kirk Kerkorian.
“Everybody who is not there deserves credit for this. Tony Thomopoulos, Alan Ladd and myself should be thanked by Mr. Kerkorian, who let us leave,” said former MGM/UA Chairman Lee Rich, who is now an independent producer.
Columbia Pictures--which last year swept nine Academy Awards, including best picture, with “The Last Emperor"--had no nominations at all this year, while Tri-Star Pictures received only a costume design nomination for “Sunset.” Both studios are owned by Columbia Pictures Entertainment.
The heavy showing for “Rain Man” was hardly unexpected. An advertisement appearing in Wednesday’s Times proclaimed the movie an “Academy Award Nominee,” even though the nominations weren’t announced until 5:30 Wednesday morning.
One MGM/UA executive immediately speculated that the gun-jumping ad was an error: “Something got glued together that shouldn’t have been. . . . There are gentleman’s agreements about these things, and now we look a little silly.”
But MGM/UA distribution President David Forbes said the ad was placed intentionally: “We thought we were going to have a nomination, and I didn’t think it would bother people. . . . It seemed like a pretty sure thing.” Forbes said he hadn’t received any complaints from the academy or competitors.
Best-picture nominee “Dangerous Liaisons” received a best screenplay nomination for writer Christopher Hampton, but Stephen Frears didn’t get a best-director nomination.
Best-picture nominee “The Accidental Tourist” got a similar screenplay nomination for writers Frank Galati and Lawrence Kasdan, but Kasdan wasn’t nominated as best director. No film has ever received a best-picture Oscar without its director receiving a nomination.
Nominees for best foreign-language film included “Hanussen,” from Hungary; “The Music Teacher,” from Belgium; “Pelle the Conqueror,” from Denmark; “Salaam Bombay!” from India, and “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” from Spain.
Best Picture: “The Accidental Tourist,” “Dangerous Liaisons,” “Mississippi Burning,” “Rain Man,” “Working Girl.”
Best Actor: Gene Hackman, “Mississippi Burning"; Tom Hanks, “Big"; Dustin Hoffman, “Rain Man"; Edward James Olmos, “Stand and Deliver"; Max von Sydow, “Pelle the Conqueror.”
Best Actress: Glenn Close, “Dangerous Liaisons"; Jodie Foster, “The Accused"; Melanie Griffith, “Working Girl"; Meryl Streep, “A Cry in the Dark"; Sigourney Weaver, “Gorillas in the Mist.”
Best Director: Charles Crichton, “A Fish Called Wanda"; Martin Scorsese, “The Last Temptation of Christ"; Alan Parker, “Mississippi Burning"; Barry Levinson, “Rain Man"; Mike Nichols, “Working Girl.”
Best Supporting Actor: Alec Guinness, “Little Dorrit"; Kevin Kline, “A Fish Called Wanda"; Martin Landau, “Tucker: The Man and His Dream"; River Phoenix, “Running on Empty"; Dean Stockwell, “Married to the Mob.”
Best Supporting Actress: Joan Cusack, “Working Girl"; Geena Davis, “The Accidental Tourist"; Frances McDormand, “Mississippi Burning"; Michelle Pfeiffer, “Dangerous Liaisons"; Sigourney Weaver, “Working Girl.”
Best Foreign Language Film: “Hanussen,” Hungary; “The Music Teacher,” Belgium; “Pelle the Conqueror,” Denmark; “Salaam Bombay!,” India; “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” Spain.
Best Original Screenplay: Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg, “Big"; Ron Shelton, “Bull Durham"; John Cleese, story by John Cleese and Charles Crichton, “A Fish Called Wanda"; Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow, story by Barry Morrow, “Rain Man"; Naomi Foner, “Running on Empty.”
Best Screenplay Adaptation: Frank Galati and Lawrence Kasdan, “The Accidental Tourist"; Christopher Hampton, “Dangerous Liaisons"; Anna Hamilton Phelan, story by Anna Hamilton Phelan and Tab Murphy, “Gorillas in the Mist"; Christine Edzard, “Little Dorrit"; Jean-Claude Carriere and Philip Kaufman, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
Best Original Song: “Calling You,” music and lyric by Bob Telson, “Bagdad Cafe"; “Let the River Run,” music and lyric by Carly Simon, “Working Girl"; “Two Hearts,” music by Lamont Dozier, lyric by Phil Collins, “Buster.”
Best Original Score: John Williams, “The Accidental Tourist"; George Fenton, “Dangerous Liaisons"; Maurice Jarre, “Gorillas in the Mist"; Dave Grusin, “The Milagro Beanfield War"; Hans Zimmer, “Rain Man.”
Art Direction: Albert Brenner, art decoration, Garrett Lewis, set decoration, “Beaches"; Stuart Craig, art decoration, Gerard James, set decoration, “Dangerous Liaisons"; Ida Random, art decoration, Linda DeScenna, set decoration, “Rain Man"; Dean Tavoularis, art decoration, Armin Ganz, set decoration, “Tucker: The Man and His Dream"; Elliot Scott, art decoration, Peter Howitt, set decoration, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.”
Cinematography: Peter Biziou, “Mississippi Burning"; John Seale, “Rain Man"; Conrad L. Hall, “Tequila Sunrise"; Sven Nykvist, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being"; Dean Cundey, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.”
Best Costumes: Deborah Nadoolman, “Coming to America"; James Acheson, “Dangerous Liaisons"; Jane Robinson, “A Handful of Dust"; Patricia Norris, “Sunset"; Milena Canonero, “Tucker: The Man and His Dream.”
Best Documentary, Feature: “The Cry of Reason--Beyers Naude: An Afrikaner Speaks Out"; “Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie"; “Let’s Get Lost"; “Promises to Keep"; “Who Killed Vincent Chin?”
Best Documentary, Short Subject: “The Children’s Storefront"; “Family Gathering;" “Gang Cops"; “Portrait of Imogen"; “You Don’t Have to Die.”
Film Editing: Frank Urioste, John F. Link, “Die Hard"; Stuart Baird, “Gorillas in the Mist"; Gerry Hambling, “Mississippi Burning"; Stu Linder, “Rain Man"; Arthur Schmidt, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.”
Makeup: Ve Neill, Steve La Porte, Robert Short, “Beetlejuice"; Rick Baker, “Coming to America"; Tom Burman, Bari Drieband-Burman, “Scrooged.”
Animated Short Film: Cordell Barker, “The Cat Came Back"; Bill Kroyer, “Technological Threat"; John Lasseter, “Tin Toy.”
Live Action Short Film: Dean Parisot, Steven Wright, “The Appointments of Dennis Jennings"; Matia Karrell, “Cadillac Dreams"; Gary Moss, “Gullah Tales.”
Sound: Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore, Willie D. Burton, “Bird"; Don Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton, Al Overton, “Gorillas in the Mist"; Robert Litt, Elliot Tyson, Richard C. Kline, Danny Michael, “Mississippi Burning"; Robert Knudson, John Boyd, Don Digirolamo, Tony Dawe, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.”
Visual Effects: Richard Edlund, Al DiSarro, Brent Boates and Thaine Morris, “Die Hard"; Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Edward Jones and George Gibbs, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit"; Dennis Muren, Michael McAlister, Phil Tippett and Chris Evans, “Willow.”
Special Awards: Honorary award to the National Film Board of Canada, special achievement award to Richard Williams, for animation direction, including “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”
12:00 AM, Feb. 18, 1989: For the Record
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How Rooney Mara’s incendiary ‘Una’ will advance the sexual-assault conversation at Telluride, Toronto and into Oscar season
Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn in “Una.”
(Jean Doumanian Productions)
By Steven Zeitchik
Whether it’s the squirmy complexity of the Nate Parker scandal, the family accusations aimed at Woody Allen or the ongoing legal battle against Bill Cosby, Hollywood has recently grappled with a number of sexual-assault controversies.
But those cases have tended to play out abstractly, via details of long-ago incidents and the distancing words of Op-Ed columns.
That will all change with “Una,” an explosive sexual-abuse film drama about the aftermath of a relationship between a 40-year-old man and 13-year-old girl, which makes visual what in news stories can be vague.
Though its story is fictional, the movie’s provocations could stir emotions as deep as any real-life story — not least because it refuses to treat characters as strict victims or abusers.
“There’s no excuse for what happened between Ray and Una — it’s an unacceptable criminal relationship,” said the film’s director, Benedict Andrews, referring to protagonists played by Ben Mendelsohn and Rooney Mara. “But this is a more specific way of looking at the topic. Is Ray still a criminal or is he a good person? And Una’s question is the same as the audience’s: Was it love or was it abuse?”
Based on David Harrower’s acclaimed 2005 play “Blackbird” (it garnered three Tony nominations when staged on Broadway with Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams this year), the England-set “Una” enters a world in which the awareness of sexual-assault issues is high but nuance can be lacking.
So when the undistributed picture makes its world premiere Friday night at the Telluride Film Festival (before arriving in Toronto for that city’s festival shortly after), it will toss a grenade into both the current high-pressure debate about apt punishment for sex offenders as well as the modern movie business, which in 2016 often steers clear of third-rail subjects.
Opening on the ruminative shot of a 13-year-old Una (Ruby Stokes), the film soon flashes forward 15 years to the present, as a clearly damaged adult version of the character (Mara) sets out to confront abuser Ray (Mendelsohn) at his nondescript suburban office.
What follows is a complicated tangle between the pair, wrapped around short bursts of memory-driven flashbacks. In earlier times, Ray, a neighbor to Una’s family, meets the young girl and establishes a rapport, eventually fleeing with her for a seaside town and a potential new life together. After having sex with Una at a motel, Ray abandons her, prompting Una to panic and setting off events that leads to his trial and imprisonment. After serving four years, he has now sought to create a new life, with a new name, and over the course of a decade has largely succeeded.
But now Una has tracked down Ray to seek … what? Truth? Resolution? Revenge? Reconciliation? All of the above? Their back and forth soon becomes a study in emotional forensics.
Audiences are asked to ponder not only which character has more credibility, but if conventional definitions of abuse are too simplistic. By portraying an adult Una who still desires Ray — “Is it because I’m too old?” she says plaintively during an intimate moment, as she unsuccessfully tries to persuade him to have sex — it suggests a victim’s complicity, even affection. The portrayal comes in pointed contrast to the current debate about cases such as the Brock Turner Stanford sexual assault sentencing, in which, aided by social media’s decibel level, victims are defined chiefly by, well, their victimhood.
Rooney Mara as Una in "Una."
(Jean Doumanian Productions )
And by at times showing Ray in a sympathetic light, it implies that an abuser has emotions that can explain, if not justify, his behavior. (Certainly it considers whether the passage of time should merit an absolution--a question with chilling overtones of the Parker, Allen and Cosby affair--though it should be noted that, unlike Ray, none of those men have been convicted).
Harrower, who read a number of real-life accounts in his research, said he wrote the play because modern victim stories didn’t seem sufficiently complex.
“The typical representation of the victim and abuser doesn’t take a lot of what happens into account. There are myriad responses — you just need to read these accounts to see these conflicting emotions,” said the playwright by phone from his home in Glasgow, Scotland.
He said Una took on a quasi-mystical power for him.
“I almost had no control. She was coming out with these things, and the more I pushed them down, the more she pushed back,” he said. “In some of the writing process I thought, ‘I can’t write that. I can’t say that.’ But I kept it in.”
Cinema has been intermittently interested in issues of pedophilia and sexual abuse, with films such as “The Accused” and “The Woodsman” presaging more modern tales like “Spotlight” and the documentary “The Hunting Ground.”
The bar is really high when you tackle something like this; you need to be on your game.
Daniel Battsek, head of Film4
But where many earlier films drew a clear line between abuser and victim — and often focused on the latter’s quest for justice — “Una” opens up a new font in the genre. It subversively asks if other reactions are more interesting — and, even, more common. And it questions whether previous stories under-emphasize the relationship between victim and attacker.
“What’s striking to me is the way these two people are fused because they can’t talk to anyone else,” said Andrews, who wrote the script with Harrower. “It’s like every affair, only more so. It gives them a great charge that belongs only to them, almost like a kind of shared memory bank “
(Another upcoming film, Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle,” starring Isabelle Huppert, takes a similar tack, following a sexual-assault victim through a series of jaw-dropping reactions to the crime.)
The closest historical analogue to “Una” might be “Lolita,” though with that title character a far greater driver of the story and relationship, even that comparison is inexact.
“Una” was financed primarily by funds from the upscale British company Film4 and the national arts agency Creative Scotland, each willing to roll the dice.
Whether a U.S. distributor will take a flier on the film remains to be seen. Independent firms have been known to gamble on difficult material, especially when it arrives with Oscar potential. But the idea of releasing a provocative pedophilia movie in this time of embattled box office — let alone from a first-time filmmaker such as Andrews — is a different type of challenge.
Daniel Battsek, the head of Film4, said that he believes the movie’s daring is a chief selling point.
“This is a film that deals with very controversial themes but I think in a sensitive and interesting way,” he said. “The bar is really high when you tackle something like this; you need to be on your game in every element of the filmmaking.”
Reaching that stratum wasn’t easy.
Some plays in recent years have struggled in cinematic form, including tour-de-force pieces such as “August: Osage County” and “God of Carnage,” “
Una"—it was produced by Jean Doumanian, Patrick Daly and Maya Amsellem—sought to avoid these pitfalls by taking a more kill-your-darlings approach to the original work. “Blackbird” is essentially a chamber piece, with two characters hashing out the past in a single room. “Una” pries open the story, often taking the action outside the office and stripping away much of the dialogue in favor of haunting, sometimes wordless sequences. It also adds an entirely new final section involving Ray’s co-worker (Riz Ahmed) and an unexpected showdown.
The flashbacks gave filmmakers a tool that was lacking on stage — while the dreaminess of those flashbacks pack a certain sneaky power.
“The claustrophobia of being locked in a room with these two is the thrill of the play, because it’s a great boxing match,” said Andrews, an Australian native who lives in Iceland; the director, making his film debut, is well acquainted with “Blackbird,” having staged it in English and German.
“But my curiosity lay in the opportunity to explore the experience of time, which is the realm of cinema,” he continued. “It’s to juxtapose the girl against the woman; it’s to look at the nature of memory and whether the [people] they were 15 years ago is still buried under the people they are now.”
Mara, having investigated laconic subtlety in the likes of “Carol,” manages to convey an uncommon mixture of tenderness and ferocity. Mendelsohn, the “Bloodline” and “The Dark Knight Rises” actor, offers his brand of human twitchiness that perfectly suits a character whose moral radar keeps slipping from view.
But it’s the subject matter that is likely to generate the most attention. Though the men who worked on the film expressed their desire for sensitivity, it remains to be seen how others, particularly women, will react to it. (Mara was not made available for this piece.)
The filmmakers say they are poised for whatever arrives. in many ways, they say, they are hoping for more debate.
“Yes, it’s statutory rape, that’s a given,” Andrews said. “But what comes after that? What can be unfinished about that? I hope people talk about that as they leave the theater.”
Harrower had a more direct assessment.
“I know we could get pilloried,” he said. “But this is a story that needed to be told.”
On Twitter: @ZeitchikLAT
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Did Christopher Columbus Discover
to pay homage to the Italian seafarer and explorer Christopher Columbus for his ‘discovery’ of the Americas (and the Caribbean). But as the public has been reminded so often by scholars, and as I tell.
said Lendzinski. "Also, he did not discover America." At a school named for Columbus, it’s a day without classes, said Ed Poznek, CEO of Christopher Columbus Charter School in South Philadelphia. "We.
May 16, 2019 · Christopher Columbus, Italian Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish Cristóbal Colón, (born between August 26 and October 31?, 1451, Genoa [Italy]—died May 20, 1506, Valladolid, Spain), master navigator and admiral whose four transatlantic voyages (1492–93, 1493–96, 1498–1500, and 1502–04) opened the way for European exploration, exploitation, and colonization of the Americas.
Christopher Columbus got 3 ships from Queen Isabella of Spain and he planned to go West to sail to India. North America and South America were not discovered yet so instead of finding India he.
And things he did do that might surprise you. So you think that Christopher Columbus discovered America in the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria and also, while he was at it, proved the Earth.
Oct 03, 2018 · As the classroom rhyme goes, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 and discovered America. But there is more to the story of the explorer we.
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The discovery of the Americas has for centuries been credited to the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, but ancient markings carved into rocks around the US could require history to be rewritten.
Oct 11, 2010. Italian-Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus is shown in this work by Italian. After all, the Native Americans discovered North America about 14,000 years. If an “Indian” worker did not deliver his full quota of gold dust by.
Oct 8, 2017. In 1492, Christopher Columbus set out to make the impossibly long. The Italian explorer, of course, never did fulfill his promise to Spain's king.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan made the explosive claim that "America was discovered by Muslims, not by Christopher Columbus" during a public address. Cuban authorities did not release any public.
Jan 18, 2019 · So perhaps the question that should be asked is how Cristoforo Colombo ended up as Cristóbal Colón in his adopted country of Spain. (Sometimes his first name in Spanish is rendered as Cristóval, which is pronounced the same, since the b and v sound identical.)Unfortunately, the answer to that appears to be lost in history.
Christopher Columbus (/ k ə ˈ l ʌ m b ə s /; before 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonist who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain. He led the first European expeditions to the Caribbean, Central America, and South America, initiating the permanent European colonization of the Americas.
Oct 08, 2015 · As Columbus Day gives way to “fall break” and drops off many workers’ calendars altogether, it has become easy to overlook a perennial teaching moment. When Christopher Columbus.
Nov 09, 2009 · Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who stumbled upon the Americas and whose journeys marked the beginning of centuries of transatlantic colonization. The explorer Christopher Columbus.
THERE ARE only two individuals in the totality of American history who have federal holidays named after them: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Christopher Columbus. to make an addendum to.
It’s the stuff of a Hollywood blockbuster: Five hundred years ago, a son of Christopher. newly discovered manuscript is "an absolutely gorgeous thing," says Edward Wilson-Lee, author of The.
Literally no one uses Columbus Day for its intended purpose of remembering that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America. of the Indians” by the Spanish court and at no point did he cut off anyone.
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria! This great sailor and navigator crossed the ocean blue, and into the New World. But the relationship between the explorer and the natives is troubling.
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He did. the true discovery of America by its founding fathers such as John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton,
Oct 9, 2017. For one, Columbus did not disprove that the Earth is flat and discover that the world is round. “In his time, it was already common knowledge,”.
This Christopher Columbus is a superman who did what he did for the glory of God. about as emotionally thrilling as two-man beach volleyball. "Christopher Columbus: The Discovery" is rated PG-13.
Christopher Columbus Facts. Christopher Columbus (c. 1451 to May 20, 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator. In 1492, he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in.
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“Columbus did not ‘discover’ a land that was already inhabited by millions of indigenous peoples and hundreds of indigenous nations. Historical facts prove that the legacy of Christopher Columbus is.
The second Monday in October marks Columbus Day — a federal holiday since 1937 — when Christopher Columbus. Americas before Columbus did. I think that even if Columbus isn’t necessarily important.
There’s hardly a more forgettable holiday than the innocuous and poorly observed Columbus Day. Celebrated in the U.S. on the second Monday in October, Columbus Day commemorates the discovery of the.
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In 1492, a Spanish-based transatlantic maritime expedition led by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus encountered the Americas, continents which were completely unknown in Europe, Asia and Africa and were outside the Old World political and economic system. The four voyages of Columbus began the Spanish colonization of the Americas. For a long time it was generally believed that Columbus.
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On February 15, 1493, Christopher Columbus sent out a letter to the European world revealing for the first time his discovery of America. This historical fact should raise yet another question: Why.
Christopher Columbus, Christobel Colon, the man who discovered America. He was turned down by the Spanish Court, but they did keep him on a salary to.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech to Latin American Muslims that Christopher Columbus did not discover America, that it was Muslim explorers who reached the New World in 1178. He.
In school, children are taught that Christopher Columbus was a national hero. to the “civilized” world, yet in this discovery, he erased the natives inhabiting the. It obviously did not occur to Columbus to consider these people in any terms.
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1492: Christopher Columbus "discovered the New World” — about 500 years after. This showed that a small community of Vikings did beat Columbus to North America. But whether those Vikings traveled.
History of the Famous Explorers and the Discovery of America. The discovery of. Which area of America did Christopher Columbus explore? Read the fact file.
Much of what we learned about Christopher Columbus as kids is questionable. He did not, in fact, set out to prove the Earth was round — most people already knew that by the late 15th century. And.
Oct 5, 2018. Statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus, Ohio next to City Hall. did Columbus become the idealized symbol of New World discovery?
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History Of Religion Essay Religion and Science. Return to Top; The following article by Albert Einstein appeared in the New York Times Magazine on November 9, 1930 pp 1-4. It has been reprinted in Ideas and Opinions, Crown Publishers, Inc. 1954, pp 36 – 40.It also appears in Einstein’s book The World as I See It, Philosophical Library, New
Christopher Columbus may have discovered the New World. Hackel believes that Columbus was a very controversial figure. “He did not intend genocide nor did he practice it,” he says. “But he can be.
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The allure of complementary and alternative medicine
Steven Reidbord, MD | Meds | June 28, 2019
“Complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM) is a category that includes all the methods of physical or mental healing that do not fall under the umbrella of western medicine. Examples include comprehensive healing traditions from other cultures, such as Chinese or Ayurvedic (Indian) medicine; herbal remedies; and a wide variety of mind-body treatments, such as meditation and yoga. CAM treatments are popular everywhere, including here in the U.S. But they are considered unproven by western medicine, usually because they haven’t shown statistically significant treatment effects, as compared to placebo, in randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
Advocates of CAM argue that RCTs are the wrong tool to assess such treatments. Western medicine is founded on diagnosing a disease, then applying one or more treatments known to fight that disease. Individual differences among patients who share a given disease are considered error variance that can’t be accounted for. These differences are averaged out in subject groups, which is why large subject groups lend more statistical power to RCTs than do small subject groups. Thus, antidepressant drugs and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) are accepted as legitimate in western medicine because research subjects with diagnosed major depressive disorder improve — on average — with these treatments to a greater degree than similar patients in control groups. Differences between responders and non-responders in a given group are usually unstudied and unknown, and in any case irrelevant to the finding that the treatment is “effective.”
A common feature of CAM is that individual differences are highlighted, not thrown away as noise. Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine describe subtle balances of tendencies or energies within the individual, and seek to restore health by correcting imbalances. Similar principles are purportedly at work in chiropractic, western herbalism, tai chi, and so forth. It remains an empirical — but often hard to test — question whether these CAM practices actually have a healing effect.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy (and for purposes of this discussion, psychoanalysis) is not considered CAM because it does not fall outside the umbrella of western medicine. Dynamic principles are taught to psychiatry residents (i.e., physicians), health insurers pay for treatment, and non-psychiatric physicians have few qualms about referring their patients for such therapy.
However, this is changing. The term “evidence-based treatment” is increasingly used to differentiate psychiatric interventions that fit the standard RCT paradigm. These include FDA-approved medications and other somatic treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). They also include CBT in its various forms. Notably, dynamic therapy and psychoanalysis are not included, despite a sizable literature showing efficacy. “Evidence-based treatment” is thus a misleading term, a kind of sales pitch for certain types of treatment. But it’s an effective sales pitch. It is becoming “common knowledge” that some psychotherapy is “evidence-based” and some is not. There are only small, fledgling efforts thus far to counter this misperception.
Dynamic therapy is thus veering from mainstream legitimacy to something approaching CAM. It’s no coincidence that it also shares important commonalities with CAM: a focus on individual differences, subtle energies (unconscious impulses and feelings in this case), a “balancing” paradigm within the individual, and a rejection of one-size-fits-all treatment.
On the one hand, it is small comfort that psychodynamics now joins company with implausible healing arts such as reiki and homeopathy. It feels unfair to discount our careful theories, myriad case reports, our documented successes. We’re not some crackpot cult positing invisible entities and forces, like chakras, kundalini, and chi. Except that, in the eyes of many these days, we are. It can all be a bit depressing.
On the other hand, sometimes CAM eventually gains legitimacy even in the eyes of western medicine. Acupuncture and probiotics are arguably two such examples. Perhaps the pendulum will swing back when more sophisticated research methods show unique advantages for dynamic treatments. Or more simply, when “evidence-based” isn’t accepted blindly.
In the meantime, given the unfortunate delegitimization of dynamic treatment, practitioners may be well served to embrace its undeniable and laudable kinship with CAM. “Precision medicine,” a buzzword these days, rightly applies not only to genetic testing and personalized pharmacology, but also to individualized psychological treatment. Focusing on the person and not the disease need not be the sole province of eastern healing philosophies. Attention to subtlety and nuance need not be relegated to mystical, esoteric practices. In all these areas, the dynamic tradition has been there and done that.
Steven Reidbord is a psychiatrist who blogs at Reidbord’s Reflections.
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The Children Act 25 years on - and why the laws on cohabiting couples need reform
Home Insights Blogs Family Law Blog The Children Act 25 years on - and why the laws on cohabiting couples need reform
This week sees the 25th anniversary of the implementation of the Children Act 1989, arguably the most important piece of family legislation we have seen in the last 100 years. It profoundly changed the law affecting children. Tucked away, at Schedule 1 to the Act, was an equally important change, setting out unmarried parents’ rights to financial provision for their children from their former partner.
25 years ago, the idea of cohabitants’ rights against their former partner was radical. Schedule 1 claims permitted the parent with care of the child (usually the mother) to claim proper financial support from the other parent (usually the father) and consolidated the court’s powers to make orders against individuals to pay child maintenance, lump sums and provide housing settlements to their child’s carer. All this in a country where, today, an unmarried individual still has no direct claims against their former cohabitant.
Schedule 1 is often overlooked by the unmarried mother on relationship breakdown. It has been utilised most where the Child Maintenance Service's formulaic approach has proved insufficient in cases where the family’s income and assets are significant. It has enabled unmarried mothers to make Schedule 1 claims for ‘top up maintenance’ where the non-carer lives abroad or has significant income (currently above £150,000 gross pa) and such mothers receive a carer’s allowance on top of reasonable provision for the child as well as a home for the length of the child’s dependency.
However, Schedule 1 has had unintended consequences. In the last 25 years, we’ve seen the level of child maintenance awards soar. From the early 1990s, where £20,000 pa was considered a high level of child maintenance, awards in Schedule 1 cases can now top £100,000 (one mother was awarded over £200,000 in a 2013 case). Due to the principle that it cannot be to the benefit of the child for one parent to be living in a castle while their main carer lives in a hovel, housing awards can now be in the millions.
The flip side is that it can be a long way for some unmarried mothers to fall. Unlike a divorced spouse, at 18 or the end of the child’s university education, the property reverts to the father, and the mother (and child) lose their home. So in one foul swoop, the mother can find herself homeless with the substantial support she has been receiving stopping overnight. Unless she has taken steps to secure her own independent resources, she faces a grim future (but if she had earned an independent income that would likely have impacted on the level of child maintenance she could have secured).
As a result, we’ve seen real conflicts in the unmarried family as children approach their majority - teenagers pressured to secure further education for example, which then extends their carer’s maintenance and the length of time they can stay in their family home. Even where the father has been generous and agrees that the property can be retained by the child rather than revert to him, it can create the untenable situation of a child being left with the decision of whether to ask mum to leave their home.
And the current law is perverse – the unmarried mother who has a baby with no or minimal pre-cohabitation with the father, can expect to receive a substantially greater financial award for the child’s upbringing than the mother with teenagers who has been in a long term relationship with the children’s father and may have sacrificed her career to bring up the children.
In our experience, the inadequacies of the legislation and the feelings of dependency and long term insecurity that it creates, can lead to a higher proportion of ongoing conflicts about the day to day arrangements between the parents than we see in our divorce cases. Is that really for the benefit of the child and was that really the intention of the legislators?
So, while Schedule 1 has gone a long way in ensuring that children should not be penalised financially by the breakdown of their parents’ relationship, it is not perfect in practice today. Until we have proper and long overdue cohabitation reform, the situation will not improve. In December 2014, The Cohabitation Rights Bill, a private members bill, had its second reading in the House of Lords, seeking to “address economic unfairness at the end of a relationship which has enriched one party and impoverished the other in a way that demands redress”. However, it would seem that the tsunami of impending legislative change, brought about by the Brexit vote, means that there is no prospect of its becoming law, unless those charged with amending existing family law statutes can find ways to introduce long desired reform to give cohabitants and their children proper statutory protection and status.
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Drawing a Line in the Water
by Francis M. Carroll
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Everyone knows Lake Superior as binational water shared by the United States and Canada.
The international boundary splits the Lake from Sault Ste. Marie northwest around Isle Royale to the Pigeon River, then along a chain of lakes and the Rainy River to Angle Inlet in Lake of the Woods, where it forms Minnesota’s unique Northwest Angle before dropping
Why did Isle Royale, about 15 miles from the Canadian mainland, end up as part of the more distant United States? Mitchell’s map may help explain. If Lake Superior were as he drew it, it would have been more evenly divided than it is.
to the 49th Parallel and on to the West Coast.
Unlike other Great Lakes, Lake Superior seems less of a 50-50 division. Indeed, today’s familiar boundary might have been very different but for confusion from an early map and the 60 years of re-negotiations it ignited.
The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the war for
The 1755 Mitchell map, with its misshapen Lake Superior, and this 1827 Thompson rendering show the mistaken link from Lake of the Woods to Lake Superior and the non-existent Isle Philipeaux and “Long Lake” (which we’ve noted in red).
American independence, set the original boundary from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake of the Woods. It described this region’s portion of the boundary as extending “through Lake Superior Northward of the Isles Royale & Phelipeaux to the Long Lake,” then along “the Water Communication between it & the Lake of the Woods … to the most Northwestern Point thereof, and from thence on a due West Course to the River Mississippi.”
Looking at the text today, we see several problems. First, there is no Isle Phelipeaux (or Philipeaux) southeast of Isle Royale. Second, the Mississippi River does not extend west of Lake of the Woods. Third, just what is that “Long Lake” at the mouth of a non-existent river flowing direct from Lake of the Woods into Lake Superior? There were other issues, too.
The problems stemmed from negotiators in Paris using copies of Dr. John Mitchell’s 1755 map. Mitchell, trained in medicine at Edinburgh, was neither a geographer nor professional mapmaker, but came from a wealthy family in Virginia and created the map in London while recovering from ill health. He did not travel the region himself, but used other resources.
Although the Mitchell map was almost 30 years old at the time of the Paris Treaty, it was then the most widely accepted representation of North America, sort of the Rand-McNally of the 18th century.
Unfortunately, once beyond the settled eastern regions, Mitchell’s map became increasingly inaccurate as it moved toward Lake Superior, and no authorities in London, Montreal or Philadelphia really knew what the interior of the continent looked like. So while the boundary from Sault Ste. Marie to Lake of the Woods seemed reasonable with Mitchell’s map on the table, it was confusing from a canoe in Lake Superior. Knowing which side of the border you were on could be critical, especially for fur traders. (The treaty was probably one reason that, in 1803, the Montreal-based North West Company moved its fur trade post from Grand Portage to Fort William to avoid U.S. jurisdiction.)
If you look at the map above, you see that its distorted Lake Superior, divided from the Sault over Isle Royale, would seem to split the Lake more evenly between the two countries. The actual “wolf’s head” of the Lake, though, is longer and narrower. Would the line decided in Paris have been drawn farther south given a more accurate map? And had the negotiators better understood the true worth of Isle Royale, would there have been a bigger battle over it?
One of the delightful myths about the border creation is that Benjamin Franklin, secretly knowing the copper-mining potential of Isle Royale, fought to have it included on the U.S. side. Mount Franklin on the island is named for him, but alas, his wily brokering may not have happened. The Ojibwe people had long hunted, fished and even extracted copper on the island, but commercial copper mining didn’t occur until the 1840s.
The problems created in Lake Superior by the Paris Treaty were not addressed until the end of the War of 1812, the second war between the United States and Britain, when the 1814 Treaty of Ghent created four joint commissions to arbitrate all boundary issues. The first commission began work in 1816, but the sensitive East Coast boundary defied agreement, putting the Lake Superior-Lake of the Woods line on hold.
By the summer of 1822 when the Boundary Commission finally entered the Lake Superior region, there was a better understanding of the true lay of the land and water.
In 1798, explorer/fur trader David Thompson had located one source of the Mississippi River (north of today’s Bemidji) for the North West Company, and he had descended the St. Louis River to Fond du Lac. Clearly, he knew, Lake of the Woods did not drain into Lake Superior, as on Mitchell’s map, and many, not one, “water communication” linked the Big Lake with the interior lake.
In 1818, Britain and the United States agreed to the 49th north parallel latitude as the border west of Lake of the Woods, but a gap in delineation remained from it to Lake Superior. Two questions remained: Which “water communications” did the Paris Treaty intend, and where was Lake of the Woods’ northwesternmost point?
A series of claims and counter-claims followed in the negotiations.
Mitchell’s map, and its imitators well into the 19th century, seemed to show the Grand Portage-Pigeon River route. This passage had been used as a major fur-trade canoe route since at least 1731, despite waterfalls that forced an 8-mile portage to and from Grand Portage. The American commissioner argued that the Paris Treaty specified the boundary was to extend north of Isle Royale, so the obvious intention was for the border to run directly into the Pigeon River.
However, “Long Lake” on Mitchell’s map was much larger than the Pigeon Bay, a narrow estuary extending only about 2 miles into Lake Superior. The British commissioner claimed St. Louis Bay conformed better to the Paris Treaty’s “Long Lake” so the St. Louis River should be the boundary. The St. Louis did connect to the Rainy River and Lake of the Woods via Lake Vermilion – a difficult route, but used by the French as early as 1679. The St. Louis estuary had been home to both North West Company and American Fur Company posts. This claim would have put the future Duluth in Canada with Superior as a border town.
The challenge surprised the Americans. To respond, the U.S. commissioner shifted his border claim to the Kaministiquia River. From Thunder Bay, the Kaministiquia led to Dog Lake, the Dog River, then farther to a chain of lakes and streams that joined the Pigeon River route – thus a workable route to Lake of the Woods. Moreover, French explorers had used the route back to 1659. This, insisted the American commissioner, was the route intended in 1783 treaty, putting the boundary through Thunder Bay.
The British commissioner derided the claim, but reconsidered Pigeon River, which he agreed to if the Americans would give up the old Grand Portage fur trade post and its 8-mile portage trail. The U.S. commissioner countered that he didn’t have the power to agree to a line that was not a “water communication.”
Isle Royale National Park
Was this Isle Royale boulder marked by the survey team during their 1822 visit? (taken circa. 1950).
On-site surveys were being done. U.S. surveyor James Ferguson and his assistant George W. Whistler were on the crew that accurately measured for the first time Isle Royale’s distance from the mainland. (Two fun facts about the U.S. team: 1. They wintered at Fort William and paid, with U.S. government money, for the customary New Year’s liquor for the Hudson’s Bay Company crew there. 2. George’s son was painter James McNeill Whistler, famous for a portrait of his mother, so George was “Whistler’s Father.”)
Was this Isle Royale boulder marked by the survey team during their 1822 visit? (taken in 2011).
Meanwhile, to tackle the problem of identifying the northwesternmost point of Lake of the Woods, both British and American survey parties entered Lake of the Woods in 1823.
The northern two-thirds of that lake is a tangle of pine-clad, rocky islands. The surveyors focused explorations on the waters crossed by fur traders traveling to and from the Winnipeg River to Lake Winnipeg. Early surveys produced three possible northwesternmost points in Lake of the Woods:
Portage Bay, Monument Bay or Rat Portage. The British commissioner sent the map to the London Foreign Office with the comment that Rat Portage was the likely northwesternmost point. The Foreign Office sent the map to the Hudson’s Bay Company in London and an immediate reply insisted that all three choices extended the U.S. boundary too far north and would jeopardize the British fur trade route.
In 1825, the Foreign Office sent Dr. Johann Ludwig Tiarks, a German scientist who had served the Boundary Commissions before, to help Thompson identify a point less injurious to fur-trade interests.
In the meantime, Thompson had located a fourth possibility, a finger of water some 81⁄2 miles long. When Tiarks took fresh astronomical sightings, he determined that Thompson’s new site at 49° 23΄ 55˝ – today’s Angle Inlet – was indeed the northwesternmost point of Lake of the Woods. From there, a line could be drawn straight south to the 49th Parallel, creating a U.S. thumbnail peninsula of about 150 square miles.
The U.S. commissioner agreed to Angle Inlet, but with Lake Superior still in dispute, the commission folded in 1827 without agreement.
Anglo-American relations deteriorated sharply in the 1830s. The Canadian Rebellions of 1837 spilled into the United States, and in 1839, a crisis exploded about disputed timberland in Maine, raising the possibility of another British-U.S. war.
The U.S.-Canada border today.
Lake of the Woods Tourism
One inventive creation under the 1842 treaty is the Northwest Angle on Lake of the Woods.
Fortunately, before things elevated to war, the governments in both countries changed. In 1840, William Henry Harrison was elected president and John Tyler vice president. Although Harrison died one month after taking office, he had appointed Massachusetts Sen. Daniel Webster as Secretary of State, kept by Tyler, too.
In England, Sir Robert Peel formed a government in 1841. He and his foreign secretary, Lord Aberdeen, persuaded Alexander Baring, the Lord Ashburton, to
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be a special envoy to the United States. Ashburton had been the lead merchant banker in Britain and had many U.S. connections; his bank had financed the 1803 U.S. “Louisiana Purchase.”
Webster and Ashburton began talks in June 1842. A month later, Ashburton submitted a draft proposal for a boundary from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods. It was substantially the British claim in 1827 – the Pigeon River route west to Lake of the Woods with the border along the old 8-mile portage trail. Webster countered with the Pigeon River itself as the boundary, plus offered the right of passage along the old trail for all British subjects. Ashburton accepted, acknowledging Pigeon River as the boundary intended in the 1783 Paris Treaty.
As for the northwesternmost point on Lake of the Woods, Webster accepted without protest Angle Inlet, creating Minnesota’s iconic Northwest Angle, a small portion of the United States not reachable directly by road without crossing into Canada.
On August 9, 1842, signing of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty created the boundary across Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods. A conceptual, contentious line in the water finally became a definitive – and today a friendly – line on the map.
Francis M. Carroll, professor emeritus of St. John’s College, Winnipeg, wrote A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842.
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The Upper Peninsula Shakespeare Festival presents: Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull
Marquette Regional History Center
Chris Kroeze and Joyann Parker
Aug 3, 2019 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Erickson Center for the Arts
Art & Exhibitions Concerts & Live Music Festivals & Fairs
The Spinners at Big Top Chautauqua
Bizhiki with Laughing Fox: Native American Music, Drum and Dance at Big Top Chautauqua
Gaelic Storm
Riding the Wind at Big Top Chautauqua
59th Annual Eagle Harbor Art Fair
St. Peter’s by the Sea Church, Eagle Harbor, MI
The Tamburitzans at Big Top Chautauqua
Big Top Idol at Big Top Chautauqua
Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder
Shanties and Shipwrecks
The Marshall Tucker Band
Brian Setzer's Rockabilly Riot
Phillip Phillips at Big Top Chautauqua
Charity & Fundraisers Kids & Family Outdoor
Mini-Golf for the Old Firehouse and Police Museum
Capt'n J's Mini-Golf
The Righteous Brothers
Blue Canvas Orchestra in Concert at Big Top Chautauqua
Concerts & Live Music Festivals & Fairs
15th Annual Porcupine Mountains Music Festival
Porcupine Mountains Ski Area
David Crosby & Friends at Big Top Chautauqua
Brandi Carlile
Aug 30, 2019 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Supaman at Big Top Chautauqua
Word! Tall Paul, Supaman, Tanaya Winder at Big Top Chautauqua
Old Last Night Featuring Blue Canvas Orchestra, John McEuen & The String Wizards and hosted by Michael Perry
Charity & Fundraisers Food & Drink Kids & Family
28th Annual United Way Chili Cook-Off
Duluth Entertainment Convention Center
High Fiber Art Show and Sale
Bethesda Lutheran Church
Education & Learning Outdoor Workshops
Fabulous Fall Nature Geek-Out
Festivals & Fairs Kids & Family Outdoor
Madeline Island Family Fall Fest
Oct 19, 2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
La Pointe, Wisconsin
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Lancs Tories Re-Launch Page
Lancashire County Council Conservative Group to Re-Launch Website
Group Re-elects Officers
Thursday, 2 April, 2015
Lancashire County Council Conservatiive Group Re-elects Group Officers
County services privatised
Sunday, 2 February, 2014
Lancashire County Council has announced that it is going to second hundreds of its staff to a private company which is entirely owned by BT.
The Labour Administration, backed by the LibDems, has caused alarm amongst the whole of the workforce at County Hall by announcing that 2,500 jobs will have to go.
Cheaper calls to Lancashire County Council
Lancashire County Council has moved closer to replacing its current 0845 numbers with 0300 numbers, which will make it cheaper to contact the council by phone.
Creating a New Youth Zone for West Lancashire
Construction has begun on a new Youth Zone in Skelmersdale. The Zone, which is expceted to open by the year end, was approved by the Conservatives in 2013.
County milestone for reach of Broadband
The rapid progress of the Superfast Lancashire project means that more than half (52 per cent) of Lancashire can now get access to high-speed fibre broadband. That means that 350,000 homes and businesses are now reached by this.
Labour's bus plans ill-conceived
The Labour administration’s proposal to eliminate evening and Sunday subsidised buses is a pernicious and ill-considered policy - County Councillor Graham Gooch.
City Deal to be signed tomorrow
Wednesday, 11 September, 2013
The ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ City Deal for the Preston and South Ribble area is to be signed tomorrow by the Deputy Prime Minister, the Chairman of the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership and the Leaders of Lancashire County Council, Preston City Council and South Ribble Borough Council.
48 Extra Police and Community Support Officers
Sunday, 28 April, 2013
The Conservatives have agreed to fund 48 extra police and community support officers in every district in Lancashire.
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Are There Really 11 Million Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S.?
In response to questions raised by the presidential candidates concerning immigration reform, researchers have crunched numbers from the Pew Research Center in order to estimate the total number of undocumented immigrants in the United States. Based on data gathered through 2014, Pew estimates that, indeed, the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States is just above 11 million. Pew’s figure is based on the estimated foreign-born population, less the estimated number of immigrants with legal status. Data for these estimates comes from the surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, and primarily from the American Community Survey. Estimates for the number of legal immigrants in the United States come from the Department of Homeland Security, which keeps track of the number of immigrants admitted for lawful permanent residence and those who are admitted as refugees. Pew also looks at data on the Mexican population in order to further check its numbers, comparing the population living in Mexico to the population living in the United States. Pew also slightly adjusts this data to account for the “undercount”, or those individuals who did not participate in the surveys, based on the theory that legal immigrants are more likely to participate than undocumented immigrants. Adjustments also occur in order to account for deaths and immigrants who otherwise have left the country. Pew stands by its estimates due to the fact that housing units, unlike people, are not mobile. As a result, Pew believes that its estimate is unlikely to be wrong, and, if anything, its estimates are a little higher. With this very high estimate of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., it is clear that there are many individuals and families who are vulnerable to deportation charges. The Oakland immigration attorneys of Landerholm Immigration, A.P.C., have the skills and knowledge that you need when facing deportation charges. Our job is to help gather evidence to defend you against deportation, explore all of your options, and build the strongest case possible that will allow you to remain in the U.S. with your family. Call us today at Landerholm Immigration, A.P.C., and learn how we can help you and your family in your deportation case.
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ATX Squared 2017
Photos from East Austin, Texas taken MLK day weekend 2017 for ATX Squared. The event is an effort document the East Austin neighborhood and is also a response to the changing of the presidential guard. Photos shown on Friday, Jan 20 (inaugaration night) at the Full Circle Bar on E. 12th St from 700 to 930 pm.
The Survivor
Phillip Aaron Thompson grew up in and around South Austin. He attended Kealing Middle School for a few weeks until his mom ran out of money and was forced to move. He was beaten by a gang member in Houston, and suffered debilitating injuries. His friend Dale Elizabeth said he's a strong man. "There's a trooper right there. He has survived things others could not." Phillip was photographed at the corner of E. 12th St and Comal St. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Phillip Aaron Thompson
James Stewart has been fixing cars on 12th since June 1969. He is the owner of JT's Body and Paint Shop on 1202 Salina Street. He makes end meet by fixing totalled cars with clever welding and bodywork. While he said the neighborhood was much rougher when he started out, he also laments the businesses and homes that have been knocked down to make way to progress. He pointed out the empty lot across the street, which held a theater, and the homes down the street once lived in by his friends.
James Stewart of JT Body and Paint Shop
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Peace In Turmoil
Pastor Tony Johnson and his wife Juanita started The Ministry of Challenge on Comal and E 12th in 1993 in order to help people dealing with drug and alcohol addiction. Tony grew up in south Dallas, and turned to selling drugs after losing his mother and grandmother. He spent 7.5 years in prison and when he got out, OD'd in an abandoned house on 12th and Comal. He woke up and swore that if he lived through this, he would dedicate his life to God. On the floor next to him was a piece of paper with the number of Pastor David Perez. Tony called the number, and Pastor Perez helped him straighten out. Tony became a pastor and later founded his mission by following a wealthy Austin businessman to his office. The two struck up a friendship, and the businessman introduced Tony to other Austinites who enabled Tony to raise enough money to start his mission. Today, the mission houses more than 300 people each year, and feeds several thousand during the holidays. He's pictured at his mission, in front of a wall painted with his favorite saying, "It's not whether you get knocked down but whether you get back up."
Pastor Tony Johnson
When Tony Johnson was 25 years old, he was fresh out of jail and OD'd in an abandoned house near Comal and E. 12th Street. When Tony woke up after 16 hours of near-death, his friends had abandoned him. He swore that if he survived that day, he would dedicate his life to God. When he woke up, the note above was next to him. He called Pastor David Perez, and went to his church. Tony became one of Pastor David's star students, and eventually founded his own ministry, the Ministry of Challenge.
The Fixer
Edward Campos is the owner and operator of C&M Auto at 1217 Chicon. His dad, Manuel Campos, has owned this spot since 1977, and still runs C&M Liquors next door. Edward started his business when he was 23 years old. He remembers drugs being sold across the street, and his father getting shot for his efforts to start a business. Edwards' grandfather, Ray Velasquez, started Roy's Taxi in Austin in 1931 and became a prominent businessman in Austin. Edward's family didn't prosper from Roy's success. "My dad came to Austin to make a life for himself," Edward said. "He had nothing." Today, Edward sees a steady stream of businesses leaving and closing, and new developments being built to replace them. "The only thing to worry about today in the neighborhood," he said, "is where to find parking."
Edward Campos
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Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Act 2010 - Proclamation
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This Proclamation provides for the commencement of Schedules 5 and 7 of the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Act 2010.
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Tabled HR 28-Sep-2010
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and Other Measures) Act 2010
Subsection 2(1) of the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Act 2010 (the Act) provides that that Schedules 5 and 7 to the Act will commence on a single day to be fixed by Proclamation. However, if any of the provisions in Schedules 5 and 7 do not commence within the period of six months beginning on the day on which the Act receives the Royal Assent, they will commence on the first day after the end of that period. The Act received Royal Assent recently.
The purpose of the Proclamation is to fix 23 July 2010 as the day on which Schedules 5 and 7 to the Act commence.
All the provisions of the Act commenced on Royal Assent, with the exception of Schedules 5, 6 and 7. Schedule 6 will commence in mid January 2011 as the Minister undertook in the Second Reading Speech not to commence this Schedule in advance of the anticipated federal election due to the number of changes that Schedule 6 would make to postal voting processes.
The Act amends the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Electoral Act) and the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984. The amendments introduce reforms following recommendations made in the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters’ Report on the Conduct of the 2007 Federal Election and Matters Related Thereto.
The Government Response to this Report included introducing legislation to improve flexibility in relation to mobile polling and new measures to address the enrolment and continuing enrolment of people experiencing homelessness.
Schedule 5 to the Act inserts new provisions into the Electoral Act to provide for one form of mobile polling with consistent arrangements as determined by the Electoral Commissioner. Schedule 7, amongst other minor matters, inserts new provisions into the Electoral Act to enhance the enrolment and continued enrolment of people experiencing homelessness.
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Contained in this sub-group are publications issued by the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, subordinate units, and predecessor units. The position of Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor first existed as the Dean of the Faculty beginning in November 1955. In 1967, the title was changed to Provost, and in 1971 to Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
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John Key was Emmanuel Macron before it was cool
While everyone was gushing about how unique and innovative new French President Emmanuel Macron's approach to politics was, and contrasted it to the protectionist currents flowing through Britain and the U.S., I noticed something very familiar about Macorn's personal style and policy platform - it was fundamentally the same as John Key's.
At an initial glance the two might not seem to have much in common other than a background that traversed finance (Key more so than Macron) and a natural charisma both in front of the camera and face-to-face with people.
That changes when you start to look at the political situations when each rose to power. Both Key and Macron faced a political situation where a gap had been created between right and left wing parties. For Key, Don Brash had taken National sharply to the right through a combination of aggressive economic liberalisation, social conservatism, and that Orwea speech that badly inflamed race relations. Helen Clark would, from 2004 to 2008, take Labour down a much more left wing path via economic intervention and income redistribution such as Working for Families and KiwiSaver, but characterised by the Labour-led Government going on a spending splurge between 2005 and 2008.
Macron faced a similar situation with François Hollande taking the Socialists further to the left, highlighted best by his plan to increase the top tax rate on France's wealthiest individuals to 75%, and the Republicans losing out to Marine Le Pen and the ultra-right wing National Front.
From here both leaders aggressively claimed the centre ground. Key did it by dragging the National Party there, with the colourful story that one of the first things he did was utterly crushing any plans or talk of repealing New Zealand's nuclear free legislation, an idea that had apparently been floated under Brash. Key would go on to adopt a policy platform that balanced fiscal conservatism, notably through tax cuts, employment law reform, controlling government spending, and partial privatisation of some government owned assets, with a social liberal approach including support for civil unions, same sex marriage, maintaining Working for Families, creating a successful detente with the Māori Party, and promoting an open economy through new and expanded free trade deals, and relatively open immigration settings. He also, unsuccessfully, championed changing New Zealand's flag, a cause usually associated with New Zealand's progressive movement and one that put him directly at odds with the National Party's conservative wing.
Key's time as Prime Minister was widely noted for not only being centrist, but also almost veering into Labour's centre-left wing, with large government building programmes and increasing benefit rates for the first time in 43 years being hailed as squeezing Labour out of the centre ground.
Macron took a slightly different approach. Instead of claiming leadership of the Socialists and doing what Key did and pulling them back to the centre, he seized on the gulf to ultimately create his own party - En Marche! - and effectively pushed both the Socialists and Republicans out of the centre ground.
The policies Macron and En Marche! campaigned on also bare a striking similarity to those of Key and the National-led Government. Macron is pro-European Union, he's in favour of free trade, he's largely in favour of open immigration through the EU, he's been France's leading advocate for the El Khormi labour reform laws, and he campaigned on reducing corporate and wealth taxes. Like Key, Macron is also a social liberal and on environmental issues shares a similar pragmatism, with both advocating a pragmatic and gradual switch towards a more sustainable economy than Green movements in their country would like.
Where Macron and Key may well differ over time is that Macron's popularity has already taken a major hit that Key's never did. In pushing through the badly necessary El Khormi labour reform laws through France's National Assembly and Senate, Macron has expended a significant amount of his political capital. Key was much more reserved in spending his political capital, and took a much slower and more incremental approach to implementing the reforms that he did to New Zealand's economy.
That being said, Macron does face a very different political system to Key. The division and balance of power in France is such that a President can be very powerful, or utterly useless, depending on their control of the National Assembly and Senate. Macron has been fortunate that En Marche! secured a decent majority in the National Assembly, and the Socialists and Republicans in the Senate are so terrified of the En Marche! machine consuming them that they've acquiescenced to Macron's policy platform so far. Macron potentially doesn't necessarily have the luxury of time that Key had to take his time with reforms.
Tagged: John Key, Emmanuel Macron
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In memory of George H.W. Bush, 1924-2018; Lack of respect, decorum by ex-presidents
Letters to the editor In memory of George H.W. Bush, 1924-2018; Lack of respect, decorum by ex-presidents Check out this story on jacksonsun.com: https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/opinion/2018/12/06/letters-editor/38685519/
Published 3:38 p.m. CT Dec. 6, 2018
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Lack of respect, decorum by ex-presidents
The arrangements for former President George H.W. Bush’s memorial service and all activities connected to honor him were planned and executed down to the most intimate detail to show intense respect and decorum for former President Bush and the immediate and extended Bush family.
However, it was obvious that former President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, and former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were not acquainted with proper conduct and decorum for this state memorial service (or any other memorial service, for that matter). These former presidents and spouses seemed to have gathered for a New Year’s Eve party, with laughing, talking, and other behaviors unbecoming for the occasion. Michelle Obama even gave a “thumbs up” to someone across the room. And, at one point, Hillary completely turned around in her chair to have a conversation with the person behind her. The only thing missing in this scenario were chips and dip.
The music at the National Cathedral had already begun. The service was purposefully designed to be Christian in nature in addition to honoring the 41st President of the United States. These former presidents and their wives should know that when the music has begun, service attendees should remain quiet and respectful and patiently wait for other facets of the memorial service to begin. Others around them seemed to understand what their roles were (to sit tight with your mouth shut). It was obvious that the Clintons and Obamas had not properly been briefed on their expected conduct for such a high and holy service.
I was embarrassed for the Clintons and the Obamas since they obviously did not know enough about expected decorum to be embarrassed themselves. They should have been aware that cameras were rolling and the world was watching.
Gary N. Williams, Ed.D
In memory of George H.W. Bush, 1924-2018
This seems to be the year many great people died. This past week was no exception, as former president George H.W. Bush passed away.
I was born during the Bush administration, just not 41’s, but from researching the elder Bush’s life, I did have the knowledge that he was an exceptionally qualified president; he was congressman first, then U.N. ambassador. Preceding his Vice Presidency, he also served as RNC chairman, liaison, and CIA director.
In 1980, he was chosen by Ronald Reagan to be Vice President nominee. With Reagan’s national win, Bush would serve as the second-in-command of the presidential administration that ultimately redefined American Conservatism, and the most popular one at that.
Bush himself would become President in 1988. His administration would see the Gulf War raging but also a peaceful end to the Cold War. Despite these and other accomplishments, they weren’t enough to properly build up Bush’s reputation, and in 1992, with a severe economic crisis, he would be defeated by Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton.
In the years past his presidency, he would see his son, George W. Bush, become president. He joined former rival Bill Clinton in leading recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina. He would also join other former presidents in promoting recovery efforts following Hurricane Harvey.
George H.W. Bush died after suffering from Parkinson’s for many years. He will be greatly remembered as a civil and brave president.
Marley Hughes
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Patchwork Greenery of Ireland’s County Clare
Patchwork greenery of Ireland’s County Clare.
County Clare’s patchwork of green meadows and farmland give way to the mighty Shannon River with County Limerick and the Galtee Mountain Range in the distance.
This is the view you might have if you were landing or taking off from Shannon Airport (SNN) this morning.
This portion of the Shannon River is at the epicentre of transatlantic aviation history. The luxurious “flying boats” took off and landed in these waters in the 1930s, carrying passengers in style on 15-hour flights across the Atlantic.
Between 1936 and 1942, Shannon Airport was constructed on a spit where the River Fergus meets up with the Shannon for the 113 kilometre (70-mile) journey to the Atlantic Ocean.
By 1945, transatlantic flights were taking off and landing there rather than on the river.
After more than 70 years, some 1.6 million passengers on 21,395 flights passed through the airport in 2014, traveling to and from the U.S., Great Britain and many destinations throughout Europe.
The Shannon River, Ireland’s longest and largest river, has been a well-traveled route. It was used by Viking conquerors, missionaries and traders for thousands of years, and continues to be a vital commercial shipping link for the country.
The river stretches 360.5 kilometres (224 miles), dividing the west of Ireland from the east and south with less than 30 bridges in total.
Named after the Celtic Goddess “Sionna,” the river was first mapped by the Graeco-Egyptian geographer Ptolemy, who lived from the year 90 to 168.
He certainly was a long way from his home in Alexandria, Egypt.
Abandoned Irish House in County Clare
Cormorant on Lake Knockalough in County Clare
Sunlit Path in Dromore Wood Nature Reserve
Hanging Flowers over County Clare’s Owenslieve River
Crannog at Lake Knockalough, County Clare, Ireland
Fireweed in the Irish Countryside of County Sligo
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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolution!
Perhaps you made a resolution last January to exercise every day. It’s just as likely that you stopped doing daily workouts somewhere in early February. Turns out, it’s really tough to stick with a New Year’s resolution, and the research bears this out. In a recent study conducted by the University of Scranton, experts revealed that fewer than half of those who make New Year’s resolutions have kept them six months later.
So why do we still try setting goals for the new year? “I think people like a marker during the year,” says Karen Elizaga, an executive coach in New York City. “And January is a big catalyst if you want to make changes.”
Here are five tips for following through with your resolutions.
1. Connect to the ‘Big Why’
Before saying “I want to lose 10 pounds this year,” focus on the deeper reason for your goal -- or what certified health coach Chanelle White calls the “Big Why.” “Connect to your emotions and identify your biggest motivating factor,” suggests White, who works in West Cape May, N.J. “So, instead of wanting to lose 10 pounds to fit into a pair of jeans, the ‘Big Why’ might be that you want to feel confident and reignite intimacy with your spouse or partner. By connecting your intention to something meaningful, you’re more likely to stick with it.”
Once you know why you want to make these resolutions, write down your plan of action. “By writing it down, you’ll see it regularly and can reflect upon it,” says Elizaga. Consider jotting down your resolution in a two-column grid. The first column should be your goal (“Spend more time with my best friend”); the second should be a list of ways to make it happen (“See a movie once a month; plan a girlfriend getaway”). Once you’ve met your goals, be sure to check them off the list.
3. Start Small (Ridiculously Small)
Instead of going global with your resolutions, pare them down, suggests Maria Brilaki, a certified personal trainer in San Francisco. “Most people start with a lofty goal like exercising five times a week or going to yoga three times a week,” she says. “Instead of starting big right away, start small. Then connect this small activity to something specific in your daily routine.” For example, you could do two pushups after getting out of bed, three squats while brewing your morning coffee and go up and down the stairs five times after you send your kids off to school.
“The beauty of starting small is that you’re likelier to keep adding more and more exercise, not because someone is pressuring you, but because you feel like doing more,” says Brilaki. “Remember: The exact activity you do isn’t as important as actually getting started. Before long, you’ll look forward to it.”
4. Make Sure Your Resolution Has Legs
Before kicking off your goal, ask yourself whether your resolution is something you can do in the short-term and over the long haul. “Create a goal with a specific action that can be done consistently,” suggests Jenny Westerkamp, a registered dietitian-nutritionist at CJK Foods, a Chicago-based prepared healthy meal delivery service. “For example, doing a juice cleanse for three days is short-term. A better goal would be to have a fresh-pressed juice every morning, which can be done every day, is sustainable, and has no end date.”
5. Be Your Best Cheerleader
Sounds elementary, but for any resolution to stick, you have to develop your own internal strength. “I use this strategy with my executives,” Elizaga says. “I urge them to be their own best support system. And, by finding love for yourself, you’ll be more productive, happier within yourself and more apt to keep your resolutions.”
by Lambeth Hochwald
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MCM Events Confirms CRC Canada 2012
MCM Events is delighted to announce that its second Crane & Rigging Conference (CRC) Canada will return to Edmonton, at the Sutton Place Hotel, Alberta, Canada, 13-14 Sept., 2012. The event is a partnership between Maximum Capacity Media (MCM), All Canadian Training Institute, and PEAK Inspection & Training. The inaugural CRC Canada opened to a standing room only crowd in September, 2011 at the nearby Fantasyland Hotel, where professionals from all the western provinces and many from the United States attended the two-day event. Most noteworthy was a strong contingent from the oil sands in Fort McMurray, Alberta. “We were very pleased with the inaugural event and positive feedback we received from a very passionate and engaged Canadian audience,” said MCM president Guy Ramsey. CRC Canada 2012 will feature a much anticipated update from last year’s panel, which discussed harmonization of regulations relevant to cranes and rigging with the other three Western provinces—British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba—and possibly beyond. The event will again provide opportunities to improve the management of crane operations before, during, and after the lift. Fleet and facilities managers, safety leaders, operators and riggers, will participate in sessions to help users apply new regulations; evaluate and safely prepare the work environment; hone inspection skills; manage and maintain equipment; and learn from colleagues and competitors. The conference will focus on construction, mobile cranes, overhead cranes, hoists and rigging in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba; the North West Territories are addressing major growth in the oil, gas and mining sectors over the next 10 years. Breaks in the program will give delegates the opportunity to peruse an exhibit area featuring displays from a variety of vendors. Register prior to July 6, 2012 to receive the early bird rate of C$595. The rate will increase to C$695 on July 7, 2012.
Showcase & Symposium
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Xavier López Ancona says KidZania teaches children in a fun, interactive and engaging way about why the government asks for taxes. Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint
KidZania is mindful of cultural nuances, says Xavier López Ancona
7 min read . Updated: 21 Nov 2016, 04:06 AM IST Gouri Shah
The founder and president of global brand of indoor theme parks on the importance of India as a market and teaming up with the private and public sector to offer edutainment
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New Delhi: Xavier López Ancona believes children around the world behave and play largely the same way. And he knows why. The founder and president of KidZania, the global brand of indoor theme parks or mini-cities which allow children to role play and have their own unique language, money and rules, spent his last year visiting the competition—220 theme parks across the world, to be precise, to see what they were doing. In an interview, he talks about partnering with the private and public sectors, why they are trying to inculcate entrepreneurship in children, and the company’s role in bringing about social change.
How important is this market for KidZania? What’s fuelling the growth?
KidZania has been operating for 17 years, and today we are in 19 different countries, with 24 operating facilities. There are only three or four countries which have more than one facility. Mexico, because that is where we started, has three facilities and one under development. The only ones that have two are Japan, Korea and now India (Mumbai and Delhi). This market is very important for us today and going forward it will be even more significant. There are three markets in the world which are important not just for KidZania but for most companies, which are India, China and the US, especially in entertainment. You have a young country, close to 30% of your 1.3 billion-strong population is our target audience. Also, rising disposable incomes and the increasing propensity to spend, make it an important market for us. Globally, we are in most markets we want to be in. China we still don’t have a local partner and are in the process of selecting one. In the US, we have found a local partner and have determined three markets that we want to be in—Dallas, Chicago and New York.
You have also taken initiatives with the public sector.
The public sector, on most parts doesn’t talk about what they do, their mission. In Mexico, for instance, we have 100 activities, all of them have a partner, 18 of which are government related. At our facility in Cuicuilco, we have programmes to promote good citizenship, which include road safety, awareness of civic institutions, environmental sustainability, and tolerance of difference among individuals and groups. For instance, the government supplies energy, so we teach them where it comes from and how to conserve it. Teach them about taxes, not about paying taxes, nobody likes to pay taxes (laughs), but what it is used for. So we pay them in kidZos (currency at KidZania) deduct tax from their salary, and if they want a rebate, you decide whether you want to spend it on education, health, building infrastructure, etc. So teach them in a fun, interactive and engaging way about why the government asks for taxes. In Mexico, security issues are a serious concern. The government of Mexico City, along with businessmen, hired Rudolph Giuliani, former mayor of New York, as a consultant to help in crime reduction. One of the recommendations he made was to educate citizens, and he suggested we start with children because it’s easier to facilitate change in mindset when they are younger. So KidZania has actively worked to incorporate those recommendations into the programme. We’re also teaching kids about natural disasters, through some simulated activities. In Delhi, for instance, we teach them what to do in case of an earthquake.
There’s criticism that in KidZania, there isn’t much room for independence for children. A supervisor takes them through a set, guided process.
There is a lot of independence, where they make their own decisions. We don’t allow helicopter parenting, they aren’t allowed inside the activities. Here they earn their own money and figure how to spend their own money. Having said that, we have just introduced a (pilot) programme to encourage entrepreneurship. In KidZania, we’ve been very good at teaching kids about becoming professionals, a banker, a fireman, but we never did a good job at inspiring kids to be entrepreneurs and pursue their own ideas. That’s because most of our activities are 20-30 minutes long, which isn’t enough to teach kids about taking an idea, making a business plan, doing market research, right down to the profit and loss statement. So we created a summer programme, where they can spend a week or two learning to do this. The way it’s structured, each day it gives them a few hours to learn about entrepreneurship—about the product, go out talk to clients, do market research, product manufacturing, branding and marketing, which includes registering their brand to protect against piracy, campaigns and slogans, packaging, sales to other kids who visit KidZania and then look at their profit and loss statement, and we audit them. This ends with us felicitating the kids with the best plan. The programme also has time set aside for food and beverage, and some time to play each day as well.
Do kids across the world play or behave differently?
Kids across the world are very similar and tend to behave in the same way. Certain activities such as becoming a fireman, a pilot, or where you manufacture something from scratch, such as a chocolate which you can then take home, are popular across the world. There are some cultural differences, which come through in the behaviour. For instance, if you go to the KidZanias in Japan, it’s very full, they have twice as many customers as Mexico, and yet it seems empty as the kids are not running, shouting or bustling. It’s very orderly. In Japan, we had this issue where children were only queuing up for activities where they would earn something, they just wouldn’t spend their kidZos. In Mexico, kids spend the kidZos right away. Now that we’re going to the US, I won’t be surprised if the kids ask for credit! Culturally also, in the Gulf states, children tend to come accompanied by nannies or drivers. Japan and Korea have the highest percentage of adults, who accompany children. While in Portugal, we have more children than adults. We are mindful of cultural nuances, but are doing our bit to bring change where we can. In Saudi Arabia, the rules don’t allow women to drive. But, in KidZania Jeddah, girls will be permitted to drive cars, a privilege so far denied to their mothers. Moreover, rules don’t allow men and women to work together in close proximity, so there are few opportunities for women to work there. And we were very happy when KidZania selected to be a facility with 100% women employees. For most women, this is their first job! Also, you are not allowed to have music or dancing in public spaces, and we have got permission to include those at KidZania, though the dance is expected to look like a gymnastic routine. So it’s one small step at a time, but it is change.
You have a KidZania passport, which gets stamped each time a child does an activity. That’s a lot of data coming your way. How do you use it?
First of all, all this data is only used internally. Used to improve our services and operations. Beyond the passports we also have bracelets, which were strapped on to kids as a security measure initially. We started putting identification chips in these bracelets, and now we know if the user is a boy or girl, came with their family or on a school trip. This information tells us how well our establishment is doing, what activities are popular, in what age group, how much time are they spending in there. So we get all this information, and with that, the next time we design a facility we incorporate the learnings. For instance, with this information we found that children were looking for shorter activities. The attention span is getting shorter and shorter. When we started KidZania 17 years ago, our average activity was 40 minutes, today that average is 27 minutes and shrinking.
How do you keep a finger on the pulse of what kids want?
We do a lot of research, I don’t like to say it, but we do. Me and my team spend a lot of time talking to our operations people, to see what works well and what doesn’t. I go and see all the competition. In the last year alone, I have visited 220 (theme) parks. You really have to be crazy enough to do it, but I visited those parks, spending 3 to 4 hours in each, seeing their offering, talking to people there. Also, most importantly, we talk to children. Worldwide, we have our congress, we invite 16-20 kids, a panel, five times a year to ask them what they like or don’t, what they would like to see in KidZania but importantly, what’s happening outside. What properties are good, what gadgets are cool, what movies they like or don’t, we really want to hear about them. What’s great is that they are brutally honest. Which is great!
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Home> Branding & Marketing> YouTube chooses metro design
YouTube chooses metro design
A new version of YouTube’s logo has started to appear on some of its social media profiles, including its Twitter and Facebook pages, and on the new versions of its Android and iOS apps. The design, a crisp, clean, flat red play button, is very much in the ‘metro’ style – popularized by Microsoft and perhaps best explained in Microsoft’s own words:
Although YouTube has said that the new logo will not replace the old one (below), the idea is apparently to help create a simpler identity that will work better as an icon.
This is something that is becoming more and more important in a mobile app-driven world where icons vie for shortcut space on your tablet or smartphone. The hope is that users will see the red play button on their device and know that it is YouTube, without even needing the name of the brand underneath – and this is a concept that has in fact already been used to great effect with two of Google other app/cloud-based brands, Chrome and Drive (below).
It’s a more than feasible plan. YouTube, originally created by three PayPal employees in 2005 and bought out by Google just over a year later, is a highly popular and recognizable brand that hasn’t changed its logo much at all over the years. In fact, although other video sharing sites such as Vimeo exist, YouTube is very much the number one go-to website (or app) for all your sneezing baby panda and cute-cat-video needs; “to youtube” has become almost as strong a verb as “to google”, and there is good reason to expect that tapping the big red play button will be as synonymous with YouTube as the name itself.
Although her primary niche is in scientific writing and editing, freelance writer Lisa Martin is also a creative type with an eye for design. She regularly works alongside graphic designers and as such has a keen interest in the development of logos and branding.
In my opinion it is good step back. Back to the old days when logo had to be unique and simple. Without all those gradients, textures, and complex 3D whistles.
by PavelSeptember 18, 2013
Yahoo! - logo update
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You are here: News > New Era for i54 South Staffordshire
on Jul 04 2019
New Era for i54 South Staffordshire
Work has started on an extension to a major Midlands business park which could generate around 1,700 jobs and lever in up to £300 million of investment.
It will see i54 South Staffordshire, on the county border with the City of Wolverhampton, expand to provide much-needed sites of different sizes at what is becoming a globally-recognised high manufacturing employment zone.
Machines have moved in to construct the new access road with preparation for factory platforms and services infrastructure works to follow next year. It is anticipated new occupiers could start arriving from 2022.
Planning permission has been granted for up to 100,000 square metres of manufacturing space, which will provide job opportunities for local residents.
The current i54 site has a workforce of around 2,700 people, with half of the jobs held by people living within a ten-mile radius.
City of Wolverhampton Council, Staffordshire County Council and South Staffordshire Council have agreed a funding and delivery strategy to deliver the access road and the first 60 acres of land.
In addition to the councils’ investment, there has been strong support and financial commitment from the Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership and Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership.
Staffordshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Economic Growth, Mark Winnington, said:
"i54 South Staffordshire has been a huge success for the county council and our nationally recognised partnership with the City of Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire councils.
An extension to the current site, which is in an Enterprise Zone, was a logical move for us as we know there is high demand from businesses from a range of sectors.
This could generate up to 1,700 jobs and lever in up to £300million in private investment. Our aspiration as a council is that these will be higher value well paid jobs.
A fully occupied site could release total business rates of up to £3 million a year, with around half of this reinvested to help fund public services."
City of Wolverhampton Council Leader, Councillor Ian Brookfield, added:
"i54 plays a big part in the lives of many families in the City of Wolverhampton and Staffordshire and this is a major boost for them and the local economy.
Our joint investment at i54 has secured hundreds of millions of pounds of further investment and has brought thousands of jobs to the area, with half of employees living within a ten-mile radius.
We are now building on the success of what is already one of the UK’s premier advanced manufacturing business parks.
Demand is high for more accommodation from potential investors in a number of sectors and the western extension will enable us to deliver that for the benefit of local residents and businesses."
South Staffordshire Council Leader, Councillor Brian Edwards MBE, said:
"This is good news for the area and it’s exciting that work is now getting underway on the extension. i54 South Staffordshire continues to be in demand and extending it westwards will create more investment and jobs for the area and I look forward to seeing the successful delivery of the next phase of this development.
The western extension scheme brings a plan to boost employment skills, training and recruitment to local people with a £150,000 contribution – helping them to access the newly generated jobs."
The partners have also agreed a further £500,000 to support and promote sustainable travel activities, and £50,000 has been allocated to Pendeford Hall Nature Reserve to help continue its education, health and wellbeing, and personal and social skills development outdoor activities for local communities.
More than £1 billion has so far been invested in i54, with 2,700 people employed by multi-national companies JLR, Moog, ISP, Eurofins, ERA and Atlas Copco with more jobs anticipated as the remaining 12 acres is built out on the existing site. These companies are also soon to be joined by one of the country’s leading site machinery businesses, Morris Site Machinery.
Over 3,500 students have also benefitted from a targeted skills and education programme.
Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership deputy chairman Alun Rogers said:
"Our priority in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire is to ensure we are seen as the place to invest and as a LEP we are supporting growth in our key sector industries.
I54 South Staffordshire is one of our flagship business sites and is nationally acclaimed. We have global leading companies located there and the demand for more space is high.
An expanded i54 South Staffordshire will play a key part in regional economic growth and the workings of the Midlands Engine."
Ninder Johal, Board Member Black Country LEP, said:
"Our Enterprise Zones are in some of the most desirable and competitive locations within the Black Country, at the heart of the West Midlands manufacturing and distribution networks, with valuable incentives.
The Black Country LEP is delighted to see work start on the extension at i54 which will result in more jobs and increased investment in the area building on what is already recognised nationally as the most successful Enterprise Zone delivering on our ambition that goods manufactured in the Black Country are sold around the world."
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Mobile pub built by the people planned for NOMA neighbourhood in Manchester city centre
Planning application for The Pilcrow, which will sit in the heart of the 20-acre NOMA scheme, submitted today
Plans to build a mobile pub in the NOMA neighbourhood in Manchester have been revealed.
The Pilcrow will be built by 'the people', according to bosses behind the project, with trade professionals also due to have their say.
A planning application was submitted to Manchester council today by Manchester's largest employer The Co-operative Group, and Hermes Investment Management, the joint venture partners behind the 20-acre NOMA scheme.
The Pilcrow pub will be a temporary structure designed to move around the NOMA neighbourhood.
And those behind it want people who will drink at The Pilcrow to be able to say, ‘we built this, this is our pub'.
Ben Young at Capital Properties, who came up with the idea and will be overseeing the project for NOMA, said: “Skills that were once common place have become endangered.
"Craft dies when we find a faster, cheaper way of doing business. Faster and cheaper are both fine, but we are interested in better."
He added: "The build won’t be quick and it won’t be easy, but we are looking to preserve quality.
"We want those who will be drinking at The Pilcrow to be able to say ‘we built this, this is our pub’.”
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Subject to approval, construction is expected to start in January 2016, with the pub itself opening for first orders in the autumn of 2016.
The pub will sit adjacent to NOMA’s, as-yet-unnamed, new City square, close to Manchester’s Victoria Train Station.
David Pringle, director of NOMA at The Co-operative Group, said food and craft beers will be sourced from local providers.
There will also be a number of wider public events held on the site throughout the construction period, according to David.
He said: “We want NOMA to be a place for people and what better way to do this than with a unique pub built by everyone.
"We looked at a variety of options, but the ambitious, original, imaginative and innovative nature of this idea really appealed to us.”
“The concept will now go through a rigorous planning process by Manchester City Council and should it be approved, we’ll be looking to start signing up volunteers in October.”
Ed Sellick, Senior Asset Manager at Hermes Investment Management added: “The distinctive vision and unique cultural heritage of NOMA makes it different to other parts of the city.
"We are keen to involve the local community in its ongoing development and this place-making initiative is another example of this.”
Builders, coders, designers and makers will be recruited to lead volunteers through skills workshops covering everything from drystone walling and cabinet making, through to home brewing, bee keeping and robotics
For those interested in finding out more about volunteering, there is a sign-up form on the website. Additional information will be revealed on The Pilcrow’s social media channels in the coming months.
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Street lighting can be turned back on in Lincolnshire for one-off payment
Councillors have approved a new scheme which would enable communities to turn their street lights back on – at a “one-off” cost of up to £300 per light.
Scrutiny members at Lincolnshire County Council examined plans which would see parish councils, or an equivalent authority, able to make the decision for lights on behalf of their communities.
They will have to pay £300 per light if the work does not fall within a routine council maintenance programme.
However, if the proposal falls within existing council works, then it will cost the parish £150 per light.
Chairman councillor Mike Brookes said after the meeting: “I’m pleased that communities have got the opportunity to be able to have lights switched back on all night if they want to.
“I would hope it’s value for money – if they believe they need the lights to remain on all night and their communities support this.
“Those costs are ours and so those are the charges we have to make to be fair to everybody else who keeps their part-night lighting as it is.
“It’s for them to make a decision how big their need is and whether that is value for money for them.”
The cost has been calculated to cover the cost of both converting lights to LED, and, if already converted, the cost of the energy required to switch them on for the next 20-plus years.
However, council officer John Monk also reassured councillors that he wasn’t expecting the council to be switching the lights back off again in 20 years.
“What we’re saying, is that in 20 years time the technology may have been moved on. It’s a foreseeable future some of money really, there’s no intent that in 20 years time we’ll reverse it to part-night.”
Lights would also have to be switched on along entire roads, not just individually.
The county council controversially switched off more than half of the region’s 68,000 street lights in 2016 for part of the night in an effort to save the authority £1.7 million.
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The system means that they are turned off between midnight (and as early as 10pm in some areas) until dawn.
But the move was criticised by local people and led the authority to review their streetlights policy.
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Lubbock woman arrested in connection with attempted abduction at elementary school
By Gabriel MonteA-J Media
Lubbock police arrested a 33-year-old woman on Tuesday after she was accused of attempting to abduct two sisters earlier this month from an after-school program at an elementary school in Northwest Lubbock.
Rosa Linda Serna was booked about 1 p.m. into the Lubbock County Detention Center on a Class B misdemeanor charge of enticing a child, which carries a punishment of up to six months in jail. Her bond is set at $25,000, according to court records.
The father of two sisters attending a Y-Care after-school care program at Wolffarth Elementary School called police to report an attempted abduction on March 1.
He said a program official called him to tell him that a woman, claiming to be the children’s mother, walked off with his daughters.
The man, who lived near the school, told a police investigator he saw the woman, later identified as Serna, holding his daughters by their arms as she walked them across a field, the warrant states. He said it looked as if she held the girls tightly so they couldn’t get away.
The man confronted the woman, who he didn’t know, and asked her, “What the hell are you doing with my kids?,” the warrant states.
The woman reportedly told him the girls were her daughters, but then said she was his sister in law, and identified herself as “Beauty,” the warrant states.
The man took the children home and the woman followed them, he told police. He said she left after telling her he was calling the police and went inside his home.
The girls told a forensic interviewer they were in the school’s playground when a woman they didn’t know arrived and called out to them. They said she grabbed their hands when they went to her and she told them to “hurry up.” The believed that she was going to take them to their father. One of the girls said the woman told them to dance, the warrant states.
Two staff members told police they initially confronted the woman as she tried to leave with the girls. They said the woman claimed to be the children’s mother but had no identification, the warrant states.
One of the staff members went inside to call the girl’s father and check the girl’s enrollment form to see if the woman was listed as an approved guardian, while the other stayed and attempted to persuade the woman not to leave.
The other staff member said she could not physically stop the woman and alerted the other staff member that the woman was leaving with the girls, the warrant states.
Serna was identified as a suspect in the case after she made a 911 call, according to the warrant. The investigator described her as “confused” and “difficult to understand.”
“It seems as if she is on narcotics or possibly in need of mental health assessment,” the investigator wrote.
Serna initially agreed to speak with the investigator then backed, out saying she did not want to do an interview without an attorney, the warrant states.
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Denver Public Art opens applications for 2018 Urban Arts Fund projects
Denver’s Public Art program, managed by Denver Arts & Venues (A&V), has launched the 2018 Urban Arts Fund (UAF) graffiti prevention program and applications for funding are due March 19.
The UAF is open to any artist or artist team and A&V encourages emerging artists and those reflective of typically under-represented communities to apply.
“Denver’s UAF mural program has grown rapidly from when it first started 10 years ago. Our first year, we funded nine murals to help deter graffiti in some of Denver’s ‘graffiti hot spots.’ Last year, we funded more than 80 murals,” said Mary Valdez, Denver Public Art Administrator. “The UAF has become an incredible program, drawing attention and talent not only from Denver, but also on a national and international scale.”
Selected applicants will be notified in April and may receive anywhere from $1,000-$8,000. Preference will be given to projects incorporating a strong community and youth engagement component, those in neighborhoods and city council districts with few previous UAF projects, and first-time applicants.
The UAF was initiated in 2009 as a graffiti prevention program providing access to positive, creative experiences for youth and transforming dilapidated areas into well-tended and active community gathering spaces. In 2017, the UAF was expanded to develop programming partnerships that focus on community building and social change, addressing diversity, equity and inclusiveness values. Since its inception, with the help of more than 3,000 youth and 600 community participants, the program has facilitated nearly 250 new murals and has helped protect more than 350,000 square feet from vandalism.
For questions regarding the Urban Arts Fund, please contact Mary Valdez, 720-865-5564, mary.valdez@denvergov.org.
Please visit PublicArtDenver.com for more information on Denver Public Art and the Urban Arts Fund.
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THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER: Confirmed to Tour the US with Dethklok This Fall
- September 10th, 2012 –
The Black Dahlia Murder to play over 30 dates with Dethklok, Machine Head, and All That Remains starting Oct. 30
Detroit Michigan’s melodic death metal outfit THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER will be hitting the road this fall marking the band’s first full US tour since their spring headline run with Nile and Skeletonwitch. This time around THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER will be supporting Dethklok, the band from the Adult Swim Metalocalypse animated series, Machine Head, and All That Remains on the fall tour that sees the band hitting over 30 stops in the United States and Canada. The Dethklok North American tour kicks off on October 30 in Norfolk, VA and wraps up in Atlanta, GA on December 8. For ticket information, please visit www.adultswim.com/dethtour.
See below for all upcoming tour dates.
Vocalist Trevor Strnad comments; “The rumors are true… the cat is out of the bag and we FINALLY get to talk about this amazing tour this fall… the excitement was almost too much to handle! We in TBDM are completely honored to be a part of this monstrous tour… we want to extend our thanks to Mr. Brendan Small for having us aboard. We’ll do our best to impress the legions of ravenous Dethklok fans. Metalheads: See you this fall!”
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER’s video for Moonlight Equilibrium is now live at www.metalblade.com/bdm! The video is a David Brodsky-directed nod to old-school horror films with a much more graphic approach. The video’s content aptly fits the lycanthropic lyric concept set against a bawdy Victorian back drop. The result: a chilling and entertaining slice of mini-horror that metal fans and horror-enthusiasts will enjoy.
The Dethklok North American headline tour featuring All That Remains, Machine Head, and THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
10/30/2012 Norfolk, VA @ Norva
10/31/2012 Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
11/02/2012 Silver Spring, MD @ Fillmore
11/03/2012 New York, NY @ Roseland Ballroom
11/04/2012 Worcester, MA @ Palladium
11/05/2012 Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
11/07/2012 Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy
11/08/2012 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
11/09/2012 Columbus, OH @ LC Pavilion
11/10/2012 Detroit, MI @ Fillmore
11/11/2012 Grand Rapids, MI @Orbit Room
11/13/2012 Fargo, ND @ The Venue
11/14/2012 Minneapolis, MN @ Myth
11/15/2012 Milwaukee, WI @ Rave
11/16/2012 Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
11/17/2012 Kansas City, MO @ Midland
11/18/2012 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
11/20/2012 Denver, CO @ Fillmore
11/21/2012 Salt Lake City, UT @ Great Salt Air
11/23/2012 Seattle, WA @ Showbox SODO
11/24/2012 Portland, OR @ Roseland
11/26/2012 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
11/27/2012 Hollywood, CA @ Palladium
11/28/2012 Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee
11/30/2012 Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
12/01/2012 Austin, TX @ Stubbs
12/02/2012 Houston, TX @ House of Blues
12/04/2012 Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
12/06/2012 Chattanooga, TN @ Track 29
12/07/2012 Charlotte, NC @ Fillmore
12/08/2012 Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
*MACHINE HEAD and ALL THAT REMAINS will be alternating in the direct support position each night. Check your local tour listing for the solidified line-up in your market.*
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Camille Lamb
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While on hiatus from smoking crystal meth, creating absurd performance art, and speaking bad French in Paris, a young David Sedaris took a brief stint as a department store elf at a Macy's in New York City. He wrote an essay about it, The SantaLand Diaries, which he read on NPR in 1992, marking the writer and humorist's first big break.
The rant, which follows our humiliated protagonist from the job interview, to elf training, to his adoption of his new elfin persona, "Crumpet," to the first toddler vomiting episode, drunken Santas, and beyond, was adapted into a one-man, one-act play by Tony Award-winning Broadway vet Joe Mantello. Zoetic Stage's Artistic Director Stuart Meltzer's version of the not-suitable-for-children holiday show will open at the Arsht Center's Carnival Studio Theater December 8.
The part of Sedaris is acted by South Florida's Carbonell Award-winning Michael McKeever, marking the second time the artist has had the joy (and anxiety) of performing the role. (He starred in the show in 2009 at a playhouse in Jupiter.)
"Just think about what that job would entail to begin with, and then add in a few surprises from David Sedaris, and it's incredible," said McKeever of the show. "The first time I read it I was on the floor."
McKeever said The SantaLand Diaries essay was the first piece he'd ever heard from Sedaris, and that he'd been a fan ever since.
"The thing that's brilliant about David Sedaris is that he's got this amazing ability to take the insanities of everyday life that are always right there in front of us, and to really make them into something special. He can take the seemingly mundane and make it funny, witty, and delightful, and this is a prime example of that," McKeever said.
As far as the responsibility of carrying an entire one-man show, the seasoned actor expressed a lot of happiness, but a few mixed feelings as well. "I'm excited, I'm thrilled, I'm loving the language and working on it, and at the same time I'm terrified. At one point, I'm there alone, in my underwear, about to get into my tights. So talk about vulnerable. It's like, yeah!" he said.
In an hour and fifteen minutes, the audience will grasp the desperation of the unemployed, the sickening insanity of Christmas shopping, and just how weird holiday "cheer" can get.
The SantaLand Diaries runs December 8 to 23 at the Adrienne Arsht Center's Carnival Studio Theater. Tickets cost $35. Go to arshtcenter.org or call 305-949-6722.
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Blog Posts February 4, 2018
Rick Snyder just signed into law a bill that is going to eliminate driver responsibility fees for specific offenses. Starting for offenses occurring after October 1, 2011 drivers will no longer be assessed driver responsibility fees for the following offenses.
Accumulating seven or more points on a driving record.
Driving without a valid license.
Failing to produce proof of insurance.
Failing to have no-fault insurance under the Insurance Code.
While driver responsibility fees will not be levied for these offenses occurring after October 1, 2011, driver reasonability fees will still be charged in offenses where a person is convicted of drunk driving and/or impaired driving such as a charge for an OWI, OWID, or an OWVI. The fees for these offenses will remain unchanged and generally require $1,000.00 for a period of two years or greater.
This change in the current law is a step in the right direction for eliminating unnecessary fees for drivers; however, there remains a lot of room for improvement in the laws that still remain on the books.
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Tadeus Reichstein
Tadeus Reichstein (Physiology or Medicine 1950)
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Tadeus Reichstein isolates and explains the constitution of aldosterone, a hormone of the adrenal cortex, which until then had not been isolated, in collaboration with S.A.S. Simpson and J.F. Tait (London), A. Wettstein and R. Neher (Ciba Ltd, Basel), and M. Tausk (NV Organon, Oss, The Netherlands).
Tadeus Reichstein receives one third of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Edward C. Kendall and Philip S. Hench "for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects".
Tadeus Reichstein becomes Lecturer at the E.T.H. He lectures on organic and physiological chemistry and in 1931 he becomes Assistant to Professor L. Ruzicka. In 1933 Reichstein succeeds also, independently of Sir Norman Haworth and his collaborators in Birmingham, in synthesizing vitamin C (ascorbic acid).
Reichstein works on the isolation of the volatile flavour components of roasted coffee for the German company Frank (Kathreiner’s malt coffee) together with his assistant and friend Joseph von Euw in a small laboratory in Albisrieden. He finds that the aroma of coffee is composed of complex substances, among which are derivatives of furan and pyrrole, and substances containing sulphur. Reichstein publishes a series of papers on these substances, and also on the aromatic substances in chicory.
Tadeus Reichstein begins his doctorate under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Hermann Staudinger. At the same time, Reichstein works with Leopold Ruzicka, an assistant of Staudinger. Collaborating in the cellar laboratory at the ETHZ, Reichstein benefits very much from Ruzicka's great practical skills.
Tadeus Reichstein happily rejoins his family in Zurich where he receives private tuition at home for seven years. During these years Reichstein develops an insatiable thirst for knowledge and his amazement for the wonders of nature and especially of plants.
Tadeus Reichstein is appointed Titular Professor at the University of Basel. In 1937 he becomes Associate Professor, and in 1938 Professor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and Director of the Pharmaceutical Institute. In 1946 he takes over, in addition, the Chair of Organic Chemistry and he holds both these appointments until 1950.
Escaping from Russian to Switzerland because of the horrific pogroms against Russia’s Jewish population, Reichstein's parents decide to seek refuge in Switzerland. On their way to Zurich they leave Tadeus at a boarding school in Jena, where the little child will endure the violent methods of punishment of his teachers.
Tadeus Reichstein spends his early childhood in Kiev where his father sets up his own business as an engineer specializing in sugar processing plants.
Tadeus Reichstein enters the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule where he receives his diploma in chemistry.
Tadeus Reichstein in the mid-1930's begins his pioneering work on the hormones produced in the adrenal glands, which are located above the kidneys. During this studies Reichstein discovers several biologically active substances including corticosterone, the anti-inflammatory agent now known as cortisone. At the same time, similar independent research on cortisone is being done in America by Prof. Edward C. Kendall at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
Tadeus Reichstein becomes Director of the new Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Basel, the building of which he had supervised about a decade earlier. After being made Emeritus Professor in 1967, Reichstein works on the phytochemistry and cytology of ferns, publishing at least 80 papers on these subjects in the last three decades of his life.
Tadeus Reichstein finds a job in Rorschach in a chemical company. His duty is to improve batteries for flashlights. Reichstein is happy to have a well-paid job to contribute to the family budget.
Tadeus Reichstein is born in Wloclawek, at that time in the Russian part of Poland, to Isidor Reichstein, an engineer, and Gastava Brockmann. Reichstein is the oldest of five sons.
Tadeus Reichstein attends the Oberrealschule and also does his military service.
Tadeus Reichstein dies in Basel at age 99. The principal industrial process for the artificial synthesis of Vitamin C still bears his name.
Barry Marshall accepts a part-time appointment at the Pennsylvania State University spending there part of the spring semester each year.
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FDA Advisors Paint Bleak Picture for DMD Drug
— Evidence of efficacy for drisapersen is weak, panelists say
by Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today November 24, 2015
An FDA advisory committee said the evidence supporting BioMarin's application for drisapersen is weak and that the drug doesn't appear to be effective in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
The Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee meeting was unusual in that participants weren't asked to vote directly on whether or not to recommend approval of the drug. Instead, they voted on the strength or weakness of evidence from the three separate trials BioMarin presented in its application.
The key discussion centered around whether a phase III trial, which was not statistically significant for its primary endpoint, strengthened or weakened the totality of the evidence -- and the majority of panelists (15) said it weakened the overall package, while only two said it had no effect.
"The study diminished my conviction about the findings in studies 1 and 2, and of the post-hoc analyses or [the drug company's] potential explanations such as including patients with more advanced disease, inadequate treatment duration, expertise of various centers, or lack of a loading dose," said FDA advisory committee chair Caleb Alexander, MD, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
"I wasn't convinced ... and [study 3] decreased my belief in the persuasiveness of the first two studies," he added.
In the first study, there were positive effects for those who took the drug for 24 weeks compared with placebo, but none of the secondary endpoints were significant. Nine of the panelists voted that the caveats weakened evidence of the drug's efficacy, while seven said it had no effect and one said it strengthened the evidence.
The second study yielded ambiguous results, with a large impact on the significance of the primary outcome with the removal of only one patient, as well as numerically worse results for patients on the higher dose of the drug compared with placebo. Most panelists (12) said there was no effect on the persuasiveness of the efficacy results, while five said the findings weakened the evidence.
The third study was the larger phase III pivotal trial, which was not significant for its primary endpoint at 48 weeks. The study was powered to detect a 30-meter difference in walk test scores, but there was only a 10-meter difference at the end of that time period.
BioMarin noted, however, that the results were significant at 96 weeks, adding several other explanations for the lack of difference at 48 weeks, including that the study was open to a wider range of patients with more advanced disease and that there was no loading dose.
FDA reviewers noted all of these caveats, and highlighted adverse events including thrombocytopenia, which occurred in 10% of those on the drug compared with 3% on placebo, and renal toxicity as measured by abnormal 24-hour urines in 30% of patients compared with 4% of placebo patients. Two patients also had nephritic-range proteinuria, the reviewers said.
Reviewers also noted a high rate of injection-site reactions, which occurred in 79% of patients and were associated with significant redness and swelling.
The question of whether the results suggest clinical relevance, despite not achieving statistical significance, came up several times throughout the trial. One of the two panelists who voted that the phase III results had no impact on overall efficacy said she based her response on how parents might answer the question.
"If a parent looked at this, they would take the possible 10-meter advantage," said Cheri Gunvalson, RN, the patient representative on the panel. "In the face of a lethal diagnosis, it's better than what we've got."
Several parents testified during an unusually long 2-hour public comment period. Most of the parents who spoke also brought their children and testified about significant clinical improvement while being on the drug. Many noted that the side effects of the drug -- including the red, swollen injection site reactions -- were minimal and tolerable, especially given the fact that their children have few other therapeutic options besides steroids that seem to do little to stop disease progression.
Mary Herman, MD, a family practitioner who is also the mother of a DMD patient, said during the public comment period that there are "moments when statistical analysis has not captured the benefits of a new drug."
Panelists were also asked whether there's evidence that the drug does indeed work by its proposed mechanism of action: boosting dystrophin levels. Most said that the evidence was spare, and they had significant concerns that many biopsies were taken but could not be used in the final analysis.
"If the drugs act via increasing dystrophin levels ... I would have expected a more discernible increase following exposure to the study drug," Alexander said.
Panelist Aaron Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, said studies of dystrophin levels "were not able to show increased dystrophin in those biopsies, and these negative and unimpressive results weakened my impression of the phase III trial results."
During a final discussion of the totality of the evidence, some panelists noted that DMD involves significant heterogeneity, and that the drug may have benefits for some individuals -- getting a better understanding of which patients may stand to benefit more could be helpful.
Drisapersen is the first of two novel drugs for DMD that are before the FDA. Many had expected eteplirsen, developed by Sarepta Therapeutics, to be evaluated in conjunction with drisapersen, but that drug will be evaluated separately in January.
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Karl Stefanovic's Sexism Experiment: TV Show Host Wears Same Suit For A Year
By Emi Boscamp
On Saturday, Australian Today show host Karl Stefanovic revealed that he has been wearing the same blue Burberry knock-off suit to work everyday for a year to make a point about double standards for men and women.
He became frustrated when he noticed that viewers were criticizing his female colleagues — specifically co-host Lisa Wilkinson — on their appearance: what they wear and how their hair and makeup is done. This didn't sit right with him, because he hadn't ever experienced this type of criticism: Instead, viewers more appropriately gave him feedback on his performance at his job, which is interviewing and reporting.
So he decided to conduct an experiment: He would wear the same suit to work indefinitely — and after a year, not a single audience member has mentioned the fashion faux pas.
He told Fairfax Media:
"No one has noticed; no one gives a shit. But women, they wear the wrong colour and they get pulled up. They say the wrong thing and there's thousands of tweets written about them.
"Women are judged much more harshly and keenly for what they do, what they say and what they wear."
What makes his findings even more disappointing is that it's reverse sexism: The majority of those criticizing the looks of the women on air are, in fact, women.
"I think in this situation, for women on TV, it's mainly women judging other women on what they wear. So, 'Is that sexism?'" Stefanovic asked Wilkinson on the show today, still donning his signature suit.
She replied, "I would have to say, from the emails I've had over the years I've been in this job, most of them have been from women. And I don't know how we've kind of got into that space, where it leans towards a lack of support. Although I would say the majority of women are really, really encouraging. I get a lot of really good stuff. But when I get criticism, more often than not, it's from women."
Stefanovic's experiment demonstrated that, at this point, women in the media cannot avoid scrutiny based on their looks. Men in the same business can pretty much wear whatever they feel like, no makeup, and never hear a word about it.
It's unfortunate that the biggest bullies of women are fellow females, but it's refreshing to see a man care so deeply about how women treat women. To answer Stefanovic's question: Yes, it is sexism — even if its women-to-women. And it's time for women to start caring as much as he does.
You can see the video of the co-hosts' conversation from today here.
What do you think of Stefanovic's experiment?
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Losses Stemming from a Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is often categorized as a “catastrophic” injury because of the severe and sometimes permanent effects it can have on a person’s functioning abilities. TBIs can include relatively mild damage to the brain – often in the form of a concussion – but can also be severe and debilitating for victims.
The costs of medical treatment and other losses for a TBI will obviously depend on the severity of the injury. The following is an overview of some estimated losses for a brain injury victim.
Medical bills – A severe TBI can require extensive medical treatment, which can include hospitalization during a coma, surgery to prevent complications, constant monitoring, neurologist visits, physical and rehabilitative therapy, ongoing evaluations potentially for the rest of your life, the costs of medical equipment or assistance at home, and more. Past and future medical costs can easily reach be hundreds of thousands of dollars for a severe TBI.
Lost wages – Many people with severe TBIs cannot work and may lose their ability to work again. Even if they do return to the workforce, it may be in a lesser-paying position. Losses can include past income lost as well as the estimation of the lost earning power over the rest of your life, which will depend on age, education, and similar factors.
Intangible losses – Victims can also recover for their physical pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, emotional trauma, and permanent impairments caused by their TBI. As you can imagine, this value can vary significantly from case to case and depends on the specifics of a certain situation.
The good news for brain injury victims and their families is that in many situations, they have the right to seek compensation from another party. This right arises if the other party acted negligently and caused the accident that resulted in the TBI. Many different accidents can be caused by negligence and can result in a legal claim, including:
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Yankees To Sign Mike Zagurski
By Zach Links | September 10, 2013 at 2:42pm CDT
The Yankees are set to add Mike Zagurski, according to Andy McCullough of the Star Ledger (on Twitter). The lefty reliever opted out of his deal with the Athletics last week.
Zagurski, 30, signed a minor league deal with the Bombers in June but opted out of his deal in mid-August and subsequently signed with Oakland. In his brief stint with Triple-A Sacramento, Zagurski gave up four earned and struck out eight batters over six innings. In 53 1/3 total Triple-A innings on the season, Zagurski has a 3.04 ERA with an impressive 14.0 K/9 against 4.0 BB/9.
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Quantum experiment could offer proof of a parallel world
Experimental results that seem to defy known physics might be explained by positing a parallel world.
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From many-worlds to multiverses, physicists have had to come up with some pretty bizarre theories to explain the strange world of quantum mechanics, many of which sound less like science and more like science fiction. Now you can add parallel worlds to that list, according to Physorg.com.
A reanalysis of experimental data, originally obtained by the research group of Anatoly Serebrov at the Institut Laue-Langevin in France, has shown that when some free neutrons are 'lost' during experiments where they are subjected to a magnetic field, those neutrons might have disappeared from our world and 'traveled' to a mirror world, or a parallel reality.
The explanation might sound outlandish, but so were some of Serebrov's original experimental data. Italian physicists Zurab Berezhiani and Fabrizio Nesti, who performed the reanalysis, posited this hypothetical mirror world because the potential loss rate of free neutrons in Serebrov's data could not be accounted for by known physics.
Basically, the loss rate of free neutrons-- unstable neutrons that have broken free of a nucleus-- is usually expected to occur within the timescale of their rate of decay. Neutron decay operates under a half-life of about 10 minutes. But the reanalysis of Serebrov's data showed that some neutrons could be lost within a timeframe of just a few seconds depending on the strength of the magnetic field applied.
One way of explaining this anomaly is to posit a hypothetical parallel world consisting of mirror particles. In such a scenario, each neutron would have the ability to transition into its mirror twin, essentially having the ability to oscillate from one world to the other.
The theory amounts to more than just a fanciful mind trip, too. Because this hypothetical oscillation can be effected by the presence of magnetic fields of varying strengths, it could even be detected experimentally.
So what might this hypothetical parallel world look like if we could travel there too? No doubt that depiction remains strictly the fodder for science fiction authors everywhere.
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Home Our Work Multicultural & Global Mission African Descent Ministries
African Descent Ministries include African American, African Caribbean and African National communities. They are gifted and culturally diverse. The group in North America and the Caribbean is referred to as "people of African descent" or "the Black People." They represent 13% of the total U.S. population.
In the ELCA there are:
54,189 members of African descent, or one percent of the ELCA’s total membership
252 congregations with at least 25% African descent membership
242 African descent pastors
83 African descent leaders preparing themselves for the ministry.
People of African descent in the ELCA are Christ-centered communities in ministry, sharing their gifts, and empowered by the Holy Spirit to proclaim the power, love, and presence of Jesus Christ. The vision calls us to live out God’s call in and through visionary pastoral leadership, worship, discipleship, stewardship, family ministries, social justice, unity and diversity.
These areas of ministry work together in an integrated, holistic way to build the body of Jesus Christ in mission and to affirm the gifts and leadership of African descent people across the U.S. and the Caribbean.
Contact Pastor Perucy Butiku, Assistant to the Bishop for Multicultural Mission.
Visit the ELCA’s African Descent ministry webpage.
Black Pastors’ Group
The Black Pastors’ Group is a gathering of pastors of African descent in the Metro New York Synod. Established in the mid-1990s, the group provides a forum for worship, study and sharing of common concerns from the various ministries represented. These meetings enable pastors of African descent to affirm our witness to the gospel, share mutual support for our struggles, and unite to enrich the synod with our presence and contributions.
From the beginning, the group recognized that a large annual gathering of leaders of African descent and others in urban ministry was vital to the survival of our ministries. So in 2002, the group founded the yearly Urban Leaders Institute (ULI). This conference brings together the best thinking about urban ministry challenges and the best knowledge on issues pertinent to Black clergy and lay leaders. Keynote speakers have included the Rev. Dr. Johnny Ray Youngblood, the Rev. Dr. Calvin Butts, the Rev. Dr. Carolyn Knight, and many other gifted urban ministry experts.
The Black Pastors’ Group also sponsors an annual concert to provide help beyond the reaches of our synod. Every church represented in the group takes part in this event, which unites all participants and guests in spirit-filled fellowship and joy. Free will offerings support ministries such as Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina; Holy Trinity Lutheran School in Hollis, Queens; and an internship supervised by several of our churches.
In addition, the group actively supports African descent candidates for ordained ministry in our synod and at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.
Urban Leaders Institute
Held in July every year, the Urban Leaders Institute (ULI) is a three-day conference organized by the Black Pastors Group for ordained and lay leaders. Every year there are many exciting workshops such as on fundraising, transformational ministry, and more. The conference ends with a revival worship service. Everyone is welcome!
The African Descent Lutheran Association (ADLA)
The African Descent Lutheran Association is a "caucus" of ELCA members. Its primary purposes are to:
Develop a full partnership between the ELCA and the whole African descent community through evangelism, education, stewardship, worship and social ministry.
Encourage members to become fully involved with the affairs of the congregation as well as synod and churchwide assemblies.
Help assure that each individual, made in the image of God, will be respected as a unique gift to the community.
Provide a vehicle to unify and convey the needs of African descent members of the ELCA in through all existing expressions of the ELCA.
Strengthen the Christian bonds of the African descent community of believers. ADLA is also committed to forging linkages between African peoples throughout the world.
ADLA has chapters and leaders of those chapters in every synod. For more information, contact Pastor Linda Bell, president.
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Polytechnics (also referred to as UAS, or universities of applied sciences) and universities are the two sectors comprising Finland's higher education system. While universities explicitly promote research-based academic studies such as biomedical and psychological programs, polytechnics provide students with vocational-type education intended to give them the skills necessary to gain employment upon graduating. You can only earn a post-Master's or doctoral degree from a university.
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Admission to Finnish higher education institutions is based on a student's GPA earned while in high school or from taking a university's own entrance examination. These examinations differ from others in that they are not designed to test a student's ability to memorize information or "guess" the answer to a multiple choice question. Instead, questions on a Finnish entrance exam test analytic and critical thinking skills by implementing more short essay-type questions.
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Finland's Ministry of Education funds higher education so citizens of Finland do not have to pay tuition fees when attending a polytechnic or university. Under current regulations, tuition fees are also waived for international students in most cases, but beginning in August 2017, non-Eu/EEA students studying Bachelor's or Master's degrees offered in English will have to pay tuition fees. Additionally, students attending a polytechnic facility or university will need to purchase books and other course materials as well as pay for their own living expenses. Finland's cost of living is similar to other European Union countries.
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Finland is heavily forested and contains thousands of lakes, numerous rivers, and extensive areas of marshland. Except for a small highland region in the extreme northwest, the country is a lowland less than 600 ft (180 m) above sea level. Finland is one of the world's wealthiest nations. According to some measures, Finland has the best educational system in Europe and has recently been ranked as one of the world's most peaceful and economically competitive countries.
Bordered by Norway, Russia and Sweden, Finland is the most sparsely populated European Union country but is the eighth largest in land mass compared to other countries in Europe. Over two million people reside in Finland's capital of Helsinki, which is also Finland's financial, political, cultural and educational centre. Nearly 70 percent of all foreign companies have established their baseline operations in the Helsinki area.
Finland is a wealthy nation and consistently ranks as one of the top five countries in the world in regards to living standards, economic stability and educational system. Because its comprehensive social welfare system amply provides excellent educational opportunities for everyone as well as health care and other benefits afforded a highly taxed society, Finland's economy remains prosperous due to its ability to give everyone a fair chance in realizing their potential as a viable member of Finnish society. In addition, Finland is a peaceful country that does not spend large amounts of taxes on its military items, which allows it to spend more on the welfare of its citizens.
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Finland has 19 maakunta, or regions, that are overseen governmentally by regional councils representing cooperation forums for each region's municipalities.
Each maakunta has state economic and employment development centers that manage the administration of forestry, agriculture, labour and fishery affairs in that particular region.
Finland has nearly 190,000 lakes and 180,000 islands for students and tourists to explore. It also contains the fourth largest lake in Europe - Saimaa.
Forests of birch, pine and spruce cover 86 percent of Finland, a factor that contributes to the country being the biggest wood producer in Europe.
People living in the northern most area of Finland experience 73 days of perpetual sunlight during the summer and 51 days of 24-hour nighttime during winter.
As a parliamentary democracy, Finland has a prime minister who is its most influential politician. Alternately, Finland's president is considered the "head of state". Citizens of Finland are permitted to vote and run in presidential, parliamentary and municipal elections as well as other European Union elections.
As a member of the EU, Finland uses the euro as its primary currency, which replaced the markka over a decade ago.
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The official languages of Finland are Finnish and Swedish. Swedish is primarily spoken in coastal areas as well as in the south, west and the Aland region. Finnish sign language and Finnish Romani are also recognized by the country's constitution. Ninety percent of Finland's population speak Finnish. Students interested in studying in Finland should be aware that while Finnish is a non-Indo-European language and it is very different from other languages spoken in Europe primarily due to its syntax - it has 15 different noun cases, unusual pronunciations and non-traditional grammar structure.
Finland's Climate
Because Finland lies close enough to the Atlantic Ocean, it experiences a continuous flow of warmth produced by the Gulf Stream. Finland is also warmer than its neighboring countries because of the moderating influence of the Baltic Sea along with its thousands of inland lakes interacting with Gulf Stream moisture. However, Finland has very cold, very snowy winters that typical see temperatures plunging to -20 degrees Fahrenheit (-30 Celsius), with snow laying on the ground from November to April. Finland's warmest days occur in July, when citizens bask in warm sunshine and 90 degree Fahrenheit (35 Celsius) temperatures.
Religion in Finland
Approximately 75 percent of Finns belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. The remaining 25 percent have no religious affiliation or consider themselves Protestant, Roman Catholic or Jewish.
Acts of Parliament establish Finland's official holidays which include New Year's, Easter, Christmas, Epiphany, All Saints' Day and Midsummer Day. May Day and Independence Day are considered secular holidays.
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Awaiting heart transplant, Matt Millen announces leave from broadcasting
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Matt Millen waves to the crowd before the Penn State-Appalachian State game Sept. 1 at Beaver Stadium. Millen, who was Penn State's honorary captain for the game, said Wednesday that he is taking a leave of absence from broadcasting while awaiting a heart transplant. (Chris Knight / AP)
Matt Millen has taken a leave from football broadcasting while awaiting a heart transplant, the next step in his continuing battle with the rare disease amyloidosis.
Millen was placed on the heart transplant list this week at Newark (N.J.) Beth Israel Medical Center, where he was admitted Monday after undergoing a scheduled test that found abnormal lung pressure.
As a result, Millen announced Wednesday that he is leaving the Big Ten Network broadcast booth for the remainder of the 2018 season. Millen said he expects to remain at Newark Beth Israel until he receives a transplant, the time frame for which is unknown.
“It could be a few days, it could be six months,” Millen said Wednesday from his hospital room. “The first thing is to get the [lung] pressure down. After that, if there’s a heart available, we do it. If not, we wait.”
Otherwise, Millen was in good spirits as he talked about his treatment, Big Ten football and how much he missed the woodworking shop at his Bucks County home.
“The most troubling thing about all of this is, one, I can’t work in the shop. It’s driving me crazy,” Millen said. “And, two, I don’t get to do a [football] game.”
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Millen was diagnosed in 2017 with amyloidosis, a rare disease that occurs when abnormal proteins called amyloids, produced in the bone marrow, build up in organs or tissue. Millen’s case affected his heart to the point of causing failure that required a transplant.
Though there’s no cure for amyloidosis, the disease is treatable with chemotherapy (similar to multiple myeloma) to stop cell growth. Millen underwent multiple chemotherapy treatments over the past 18 months.
Amyloidosis is classified as a rare disease but, according to the Amyloidosis Foundation, that could change. The foundation’s website says that some amyloid diseases are not necessarily rare but rarely diagnosed. They become life-threatening because, absent an early diagnosis, the amyloids continue accumulating in the body’s organs and inhibit their function.
In Millen’s case, the disease reduced his heart’s operational capacity to 30 percent of normal function.
Millen continued to work as Big Ten Network’s lead football analyst the past two seasons while undergoing treatment. He broadcast five games this year, including Penn State’s season-opening victory over Appalachian State.
“We will certainly miss seeing Matt this fall, but his health is the clear priority for everyone involved and we plan to support him in any way possible,” Mark Hulsey, senior vice president of production and executive producer at BTN, said in a statement.
Millen said that he felt “fine” while broadcasting Saturday’s Purdue-Nebraska game in Indiana. A scheduled appointment Monday found the lung issue, which doctors cited as serious.
They recommended Millen be admitted to reduce the pressure in his lungs. They also recommended that Millen be added to the center’s heart-transplant waiting list. Usually, candidates must be within four hours of the transplant center while awaiting a donor organ.
“Ready or not, here I come,” Millen said. “I still feel the same about this as I did before. If it works, it works. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. I’m OK with all of it.”
In the meantime, Millen wanted to talk football. He watched Ohio State’s 27-26 win over Penn State on television, calling it “a great game between two great teams.”
Millen said that Penn State looked much better against the Buckeyes than it did in the overtime win against Appalachian State that he called for Big Ten Network.
“All this stuff about Penn State not being ‘elite,’ that’s a bunch of baloney,” Millen said. “I think Penn State showed they are in the conversation, and that they’re a really good football team. They are much better than when I saw them in Week 1.”
While in the hospital, Millen said he’s not sure how he’ll keep busy. He has taken to walking laps around his floor, with medication in tow.
“I put on my sneakers and walk as fast as I can in a circle, and they laugh at me,” Millen said. “For now, I’m just trying to get healthy.”
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